Narcissus in Camden.
(“In the course of his lecture, Mr. Wilde remarked that the most impressive room he had yet entered in America was the one in Camden Town, where he met Walt Whitman. It contained plenty of fresh air and sunlight. On the table was a simple cruse of water.”)
Paumanokides. Narcissus.
Paumanokides:
Who may this be?
This young man clad unusually with loose locks, languorous, glidingly toward me advancing,
Toward the ceiling of my chamber his orbic and expressive eyeballs uprolling,
As I have seen the green-necked wild fowl, the mallard, in the thunderings of the storm,
By the weedy shore of Paumanok my fish-shaped island,
Sit down, young man!