I see all the menials of the earth, laboring,
I see all the prisoners in the prisons,
I see the defective human bodies of the earth,
The blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics,
The pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of
     the earth,
The helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.

I see male and female everywhere,
I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs,
I see the constructiveness of my race,
I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race,
I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among
     them, I mix indiscriminately,
And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.

You whoever you are!
You daughter or son of England!
You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in
     Russia!
You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large,
     fine-headed, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on equal terms
     with me!
You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!
You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! (you stock
     whence I myself have descended;)
You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian!
     farmer of Styria!
You neighbor of the Danube!
You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you
     working-woman too!

You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian!
     Bulgarian!
You Roman! Neapolitan! you Greek!
You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!
You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus!
You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions
     feeding!
You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle
     shooting arrows to the mark!
You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of
     Tartary!
You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to
     stand once on Syrian ground!
You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah!
You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the
     Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you
     ascending mount Ararat!
You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle
     of the minarets of Mecca!
You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb
     ruling your families and tribes!
You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth,
     Damascus, or lake Tiberias!
You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the
     shops of Lassa!
You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar,
     Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!
All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia,
     indifferent of place!
All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the
     sea!
And you of centuries hence when you listen to me!
And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but
     include just the same!
Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!

Each of us inevitable,
Each of us limitless — each of us with his or her right upon
     the earth,

Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,
Each of us here as divinely as any is here.

You Hottentot with clicking palate! you woolly-hair'd
     hordes!
You own'd persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!
You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive
     countenances of brutes!
You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down
     upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
You dwarf'd Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp!
You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip,
     groveling, seeking your food!
You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese!
You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd Bedowee!
You plague- swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!
You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you
     Feejee-man!
I do not prefer others so very much before you either,
I do not say one word against you, away back there where
     you stand,
(You will come forward in due time to my side.)

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around
     the whole earth,
I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for
     me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.