Allons! after the great Companions, and to 
   belong to them!
 They too are on the road -- they are the
   swift and majestic men -- they are the
   greatest women,
 Enjoyers of calms of seas and storms of seas,
 Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a 
   mile of land,
 Habituès of many distant countries,
   habituès of far-distant dwellings,
 Trusters of men and women, observers of
   cities, solitary toilers,
 Pausers and contemplators of tufts,
   blossoms, shells of the shore,
 Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of
   brides, tender helpers of children, bearers
   of children,
 Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping
   graves, lowerers-down of coffins,
 Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over
   the years, the curious years each emerging
   from that which preceded it,
 Journeyers as with companions, namely
   their own diverse phases,
 Forth-steppers from the latent unrealized
   baby-days,
 Journeyers gayly with their own youth,
   journeyers with their bearded and well-
   grain'd manhood,
 Journeyers with their womanhood, ample,
   unsurpass'd, content,
 Journeyers with their own sublime old age
   of manhood or womanhood,
 Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the
   haughty breadth of the universe,
 Old age, flowing free with the delicious
   near-by freedom of death.