Song of the Open Road（二）

    You road I enter upon and look around， I believe you are

    not all that is here，

    I believe that much unseen is also here.

    Here the profound lesson of reception， nor preference nor

    denial，

    The black with his woolly head， the felon¹， the diseas'd， the

    illiterate² person， are not denied；

    The birth， the hasting after the physician， the beggar's tramp，

    the drunkard's stagger， the laughing party of mechanics，

    The escaped youth， the rich person's carriage， the fop， the

    eloping couple，

    The early market-man， the hearse， the moving of furniture

    into the town， the return back from the town，

    They pass， I also pass， any thing passes， none can be

    interdicted³，

    None but are accepted， none but shall be dear to me.