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UNNAMED LANDS.
1.Nations ten thousand years before These States, and
many times ten thousand years before These
States,
Garnered clusters of ages, that men and women like
us grew up and travelled their course, and
passed on;
What vast-built cities—What orderly republics—
What pastoral tribes and nomads,
What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending
all others,
What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions,
What sort of marriage—What costumes—What
physiology and phrenology,
What of liberty and slavery among them—What
they thought of death and the Soul,
Who were witty and wise—Who beautiful and poetic
—Who brutish and undeveloped.
Not a mark, not a record remains—And yet all
remains.
2.O I know that those men and women were not for
nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
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