Me ImperturbeMe imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, lessimportant than I thought,Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee,or far north or inland,A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of theseStates or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, asthe trees and animals do.
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, lessimportant than I thought,Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee,or far north or inland,A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of theseStates or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, asthe trees and animals do.