by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!
For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental
blood intervein'd,
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O resistless restless race!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,
(bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
See my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
On and on the compact ranks,
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the pulses of the world,
Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Lo, the darting bowling orb!
Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you daughters of the West!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Not for delectations sweet,
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding
on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the daybreak call--hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
Swift! to the head of the army!--swift! spring to your places,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Interested in book "hidden brain". Heard an author interview on KCRW about 15 hours ago from Echofon
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母親が還暦。電話。「人生あっという間よ」だって。きっとそうなんだと思う。自分も今年34。還暦って、自分、あと倍生きたらとっくに還暦すぎてるわけです。少しあせる。結構あせるね。やらんとね、きちんと。やることをちゃんとやるべし。どんどんね。あまり考え過ぎず。やっちゃいましょう。 11:09 PM Jan 24th from web
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Back from Manhattan Beach Apple store Genius bar. Helpful, but found Final Cut Express won't read my .mov codec. loaded VLC. temp solution. 10:38 AM Jan 24th from web
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エルエーコネクトの広告、PRをしようとブレストするなう。「ビジネスキャリア系」「オンライン英会話系」「海外留学系」「ファッション系」「文化系」「音楽系」「純粋情報系」でおもいつくままに適したサイトをピックアップ。もしここは?というサイトがあれば教えてください。 8:09 AM Jan 24th from web
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@spicy_cat 、nice-, 初iPhone。楽しみだね。 8:03 AM Jan 24th from web in reply to spicy_cat
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@beatak すごい!congrats! RT:beatak Finished Manhattan half marathon. 1:52:17 (@ The Mall in Central Park w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/8XMmwQ 8:01 AM Jan 24th from web in reply to beatak
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茂木健一郎の「脳の饗宴」を読む。「疾走せよ。変人であるこの自由が、脳の可能性を引き出す」 http://twitpic.com/zijx8 11:51 PM Jan 23rd from Echofon
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@beatak そうー、俺らがいつでもつながっているぜ~ 2:14 PM Jan 21st from web in reply to beatak
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一喜一憂しない。何が起きようとも動揺しない。淡々と、淡々と。去年学んだのはこれかもしれない。いまさらながら、ふと思う 12:25 PM Jan 20th from web
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早起き、5:45、サンタモニカ、アップルストアonetooneセッション、FinalCutExpress購入、ブラックスワンの続きを聞きながら10East 10:10 AM Jan 20th from web
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"we have suffered since we were born. We will survive this. Some may die in between, but we will survive" man in Haiti - moving- Kcrw 5:05 PM Jan 19th from web
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