More Walt and a recovered photo

To a Historian

You who celebrate bygones,

Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races,

the life that has exhibited itself,

Who have treated of man as the creature of politics,

aggregates, ruler and priests,

I, habitan of the Alleghanies*, treating of him as he is in

himself in his own rights,

Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself,

(the great pride of man in himself,)

Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,

I project the history of the future.

*Allegheny Mountains
–plural noun
a mountain range in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia: a part of the Appalachian Mountains.
Also called Al·le·ghe·nies.

Walt Whitman

The Complete Poems

Once again all I can say about Walt is I love the words and the way of his poetry but whether I truly understand or need to is another question.