id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-097 chapter-097 .txt text/plain 1991 147 87 A Song of Joys O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body, O the old manhood of me, my noblest joy of all! O the joy of my soul leaning poisd on itself, receiving identity through My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, Knowist thou the excellent joys of youth? Joys of the dear companions and of the merry word and laughing face? Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space? For not lifes joys alone I sing, repeating--the joy of death! O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys! A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys. ./cache/chapter-097.txt ./txt/chapter-097.txt