Poets to Come
Poets to come! orators singersmusicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for
But you a new brood native athletic continental greater than before known
Arouse! for you must justify me.
I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future
I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness
I am a man who sauntering along without fully stopping
turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face
Leaving it to you to prove and define it
Expecting the main things from you.
Walt Whitman