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So Long! by Walt Whitman - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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To conclude, I announce what comes after me.

So Long! Add to anthology × Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892 To conclude, I announce what comes after me. I remember I said before my leaves sprang at all, I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations. When America does what was promis’d, When through These States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them, When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America, Then to me and mine our due fruition. I have press’d through in my own right, I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and

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