Poem A Day

This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful.

by Walt Whitman

THIS moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone,

It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful;

It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy, France, Spain—or far,

far

away,

in China, or in Russia or India—talking other dialects;

And it seems to me if I could know those men, I should become attached to them, as I do to

men

in my

own lands;

O I know we should be brethren and lovers,

I know I should be happy with them.

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