Who has explored the history of the future,

and who has exhibited pride in his own life?

 

the priests in politics exhibited personality,

the rulers have pressing rights,

 

yet man as of himself seldom aggregates

in the pulse of life.

 

He is the great creature of the races -

treating him as the Chanter of Bygones himself.

 

Man is that of what surfaces project.

 

I, that habitan of the Alleghanies,

I have treated the outlining to be outward of itself.

 

Who celebrate(s)?

You.

 

 

"To a Historian" - Walt Whitman