"AFOOT AND LIGHT-HEARTED."
SECTION XIV
CAMPING FOR GIRL SCOUTS[5]
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I myself am good-fortune;
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Strong and content, I travel the open road. . . .
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Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.
—Walt Whitman.