FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face;
\nClouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face.<\/p>\n
Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me!
\nOn the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose;
\nAnd you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
\n…
\nIt avails not, neither time or place\u2014distance avails not;
\nI am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence;
\nI project myself\u2014also I return\u2014I am with you, and know how it is.<\/p>\n
Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt;
\nJust as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd;
\nJust as you are refresh\u2019d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh\u2019d;
\nJust as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood, yet was hurried;
\nJust as you look on the numberless masts of ships, and the thick-stem\u2019d pipes of steamboats, I look\u2019d.
\n…
\nCloser yet I approach you:
\nWhat thought you have of me, I had as much of you\u2014I laid in my stores in advance;
\nI consider\u2019d long and seriously of you before you were born.<\/p>\n
Who was to know what should come home to me?
\nWho knows but I am enjoying this?
\nWho knows but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?<\/p>\n
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