Smile, For Your Lover Comes!

Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed Earth!

Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!

Earth of departed sunset!

Earth of the mountains misty-topt!

Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Earth of the limpid gray of clouds

brighter and clearer for my sake!

Far-swooping elbowed earth!

Rich apple-blossomed earth!

Smile, for your lover comes!

--Walt Whitman