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I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
leading wherever I choose.
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first—Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first;
Be not discouraged—keep on—there are divine things, well envelop’d;
I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
—here is happiness;
I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times;
The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
All seems beautiful to me.
--- With apologies to Whitman for the truncation and rearranging of his words
George Kiefer copyright these Photos and text.
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