Grashalmen (Leaves of Grass)

Grashalmen (Leaves of Grass)

Walt Whitman

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Grashalmen (Leaves of Grass) by Walt Whitman

Chapter 1 No.1

Van visch-gelijkend Paumanok uit, waar ik geboren ben,

Wel gewonnen en opgevoed door een treffelijke moeder,

Na in vele landen te hebben gedoold, vriend van menschen-drukke

straten,

Toever in Mannahatta[1], mijn stad, of op de Zuider-savanna's,

Dan als soldaat in 't kamp, of dragend geweer en ransel,

straks mijngraver in Californi?,

Boersch in mijn huis in Dakota's wouden, sober mijn maal

met een dronk bronwater.

Nu ingetogen tot aanschouwing en bepeinzing in stille eenzaamheid,

Ver van de plaats waar het voetstapgeschuifel der menigte

druischt, gelukkig en dankbaar,

Bewust van den frisschen, vrijen gids, den stroomenden

Missouri, bewust van de machtige Niagara,

Bewust van de buffelskudden, grazende op de vlakten, den

harigen, sterkborstigen stier,

Door aarde en rotsen en bloemen der vijfde maand ervaren,

door sterren, regen en sneeuw getroffen,

Na des lachvogels lied en des bergvalks vlucht te hebben

bestudeerd,

Na in den ochtendstond het lied te hebben gehoord van den

weêrgalooze, den eenzamen lijster der moeras-ceders,

Eenzaam als hij, in het Westerland zingend, neem 'k mijn

vlucht voor nieuw een wereld.

[1] New-York.

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