Poets to Come

 POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! 
Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; 
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, 
Arouse! Arouse—for you must justify me—you must answer.
 

I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
 

I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you,
 and
 then
 averts his face, 
Leaving it to you to prove and define it, 
Expecting the main things from you.

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