To a Historian (Walt Whitman, 1860)
1 To a Historian 2 You who celebrate bygones, 3 Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself, 4 Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests, 5 I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights, 6 Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,) 7 Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, 8 I project the history of the future.