<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">Song of the Open Road</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">9</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">Allons! whoever you are come travel with me! <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">Traveling with me you find what never tires. <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">The earth never tires, <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first, <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d, <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">Allons! we must not stop here, <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here, <br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">However shelter’d this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here, <br class=""></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.</span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Walt Whitman</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(today is Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday)<br class=""></span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></body></html>