Me Imperturbe

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all, or mistress of all--aplomb in the midst of
irrational things,
Imbued as they--passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes,
less important than I thought;
Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or
the Tennessee, or far north, or inland,
A river man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life
in These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada,
Me, wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for
contingencies!
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents,
rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.