ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
 Master of all, or mistress of all--aplomb in the midst of irrational
 things,
 Imbued as they--passive, receptive, silent as they,
 Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less
 important than I thought;
 Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary--all these subordinate,
 (I am eternally equal with the best--I am not subordinate;)
 Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or
 far north, or inland,
 A river man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life in These
 States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada,
 Me, wherever my life is lived, O to be
 self-balanced for
 contingencies!
 O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as
 the trees and animals do.