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