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Author: paul carson (Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:08 am)
Title: Facing West from California’s Shores by Walt Whitman
Facing West from California’s Shores
Facing west from California’s shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,
Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;
For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,
From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage and the hero,
From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,
Long having wander’d since round the earth having wander’d,
Now I face home again, very pleas’d and joyous,
(But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?)
Walt Whitman 1860
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