一个女人等着我——她拥有一切，什么都不缺，然而，如果缺乏性，或者缺乏合适男人的滋润，一切都是缺乏的。性包含了一切:身体、灵魂、意义、证据、纯洁、美味、结果、启示、歌曲、命令、健康、骄傲、母性的奥秘、精液;世间所有的希望、恩宠、赠予，世间所有的激情、爱情、美色、欢乐，世间所有的政府、法官、神灵，都服从于世间的人，这些都包含在性之中，作为它自身的一部分，作为它自身的理由。我喜欢的男人毫不羞耻地知道并公开他的性之美妙;我喜欢的女人毫不羞耻地知道并公开她的性之美妙。现在，我要远离冷漠的女人，我要和等待我的女人在一起，和那些热血的、配得上我的女人在一起;我看见他们明白我，并不否认我。我知道她们配得上我——我要做这些女人的健壮的丈夫。他们比我一点也不差，他们的脸被阳光和风晒得黝黑，他们的肉体有古老的神圣的柔韧和力量，他们知道如何游泳，划船，骑马，摔跤，射击，奔跑，攻击，撤退，前进，抵抗，保护自己，他们有自己的权利——他们冷静，清晰，拥有自己。妇女们哪，我拉你们靠近我。我不能让你走，我会对你好，我为你好，你也为我好，这不仅是为了我们自己，也是为了别人; Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards, They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me. It is I, you women--I make my way, I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable--but I love you, I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you, I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for These States--I press with slow rude muscle, I brace myself effectually--I listen to no entreaties, 30 I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me. Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America, The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings, I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now, I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now, I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now. 40