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One Hour to Madness and Joy
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From
Leaves of Grass
, by
Walt Whitman
:
One hour to
madness
and
joy
! O
furious
! O confine me not!
(What is this that frees me so in storms?
What do my shouts amid
lightning
s and raging winds mean?)
O to drink the
mystic
deliria deeper than any other man!
O
savage
and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you, my children,
I tell them to you, for reasons, O
bridegroom
and
bride
.)
O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in
defiance
of the world!
O to return to
Paradise
! O bashful and feminine!
O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the
lips
of a determin'd man.
O the puzzle, the thrice-tied
knot
, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin'd!
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
To have the gag remov'd from one's mouth!
To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
O something unprov'd! something in a
trance
!
To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
To drive free! to love
free
! to dash reckless and dangerous!
To court
destruction
with taunts, with invitations!
To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
To rise thither with my
inebriate
soul!
To be lost if it must be so!
To feed the remainder of life with one
hour
of fulness and freedom!
With one brief hour of madness and joy.
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Delirium
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Trance
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Inebriate
destruction
free
knot
Paradise
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Bridegroom
lightning
Furious
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Madness
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