I do not know you, but I love you with burning intensity,

I am he that loves the young men, whosoever and wheresoever they are or may be hereafter, or may have been any time in the past,

Loves the eye-glassed literat, loves also and probably more the vendor of clams, raucous-throated, monotonous chanting,

Loves the elevated Railroad employée of Manahatta,

My city;

I suppress the rest of the list of the persons I love, solely because I love you,

Sit down, élève, I receive you!

Narcissus.

O clarion, from whose brazen throat

Strange sounds across the seas are blown,