And Thou America

And thou, America!

For the Scheme's culmination -- its Thought, and its Reality,

For these, (not for thyself,) Thou hast arrived.

Thou too surroundest all;

Embracing, carrying, welcoming all, Thou too, by pathways broad and new,

To the Ideal tendest.

The measur'd faiths of other lands -- the grandeurs of the past,

Are not for Thee -- but grandeurs of Thine own;

Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,

All eligible to all.

All, all for Immortality!

Love, like the light, silently wrapping all!

Nature's amelioration blessing all!

The blossoms, fruits of ages -- orchards divine and certain;

Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual Images ripening.