Me Imperturbe

ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all, or mistress of all--aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they--passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought; Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary--all these subordinate, (I am eternally equal with the best--I am not subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life in These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, Me, wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.