You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me a… - Walt Whitman

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

is that the President? Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep,

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear — it never tires me.
To you, your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?