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By Ruzhuo Chen ’25 The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted, O highway I travel, do you say to me\u00a0Do not leave me?<\/p>\n <\/em>Do you say\u00a0Venture not \u2014 if you leave me you are lost?<\/em><\/p>\n Do you say\u00a0I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and un-denied, adhere to me?<\/em><\/p>\n O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, I think heroic deeds were all conceiv’d in the open air, and all free poems also, From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, I inhale great draughts of space, I am larger, better than I thought, All seemsbeautiful to me, Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me, Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, Here a great personal deed has room Here is the test of wisdom, By Ruzhuo Chen ’25 \u9648\u5982\u7422 The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted, The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road. O highway I travel, do you say to me\u00a0Do not leave me? Do you say\u00a0Venture not \u2014 if you leave me...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6216,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackout-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u9648\u5982\u7422<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road.<\/p>\n
\nYou express me better than I can express myself,
\nYou shall be more to me than my poem.<\/p>\n
\nI think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
\nI think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and who-
\never beholds me shall like me,
\nI think whoever I see must be happy.<\/p>\n
\nGoing where I list, my own master total and absolute,
\nListening to others, considering well what they say,
\nPausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
\nGently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.<\/p>\n
\nThe east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.<\/p>\n
\nI did not know I held so much goodness.<\/p>\n
\nI can repeat over to men and women You have done such good
\nto me I would the same to you,
\nI will recruit for myself and you as I go,
\nI will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
\nI will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
\nWhoever denies me it shall not trouble me,
\nWhoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me.<\/p>\n
\nNow if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear’d it would not astonish me.<\/p>\n
\nIt is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.<\/p>\n
\n(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
\nIts effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all
\nauthority and all argument against it.)<\/p>\n
\nWisdom is not finally tested in schools,
\nWisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it,
\nWisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
\nApplies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"