I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.

I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.

I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.

I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

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Poems in English 

• Says. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Savantism. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Salut au Monde. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Runner, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Roaming in Thought. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Rise, O Days. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Respondez! by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Recorders Ages Hence. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Reconciliation. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Race of Veterans. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Quicksand Years. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Proud Music of The Storm by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Primeval my Love for the Woman I Love. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Prayer of Columbus. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Prairie States, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Prairie-Grass Dividing, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Portals. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Poets to Come. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

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