Starting from Paumanok（四）

    4

    Take my leaves America， take them South and take them

    North，

    Make welcome for them everywhere， for they are your own

    offspring，

    Surround them East and West， for they would surround you，

    And you precedents¹， connect lovingly with them， for they

    connect lovingly with you.

    I conn'd old times，

    I sat studying at the feet of the great masters，

    Now if eligible² O that the great masters might return and

    study me.

    In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique？

    Why these are the children of the antique to justify³ it.