" They do not sweat and whine about their condition, 

 They do not He awake in the dark and weep for their sins, 

 They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, 

 Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented 

 With the mania of owning things ; 

 Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands 



of years ago ; 

 Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." 



— Walt Whitman. 



