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Walt Whitman expressing the yearning to discover for ourselves what we each most need and desire; the inspiration to go out and through our own efforts, find our personal destiny.

On a personal note, I don’t remember feeling that same yearning before like I do now.

Now Finale to the Shore

Now finale to the shore,
Now land and life finale and farewell,
Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
Often enough hast thou adventur’d o’er the seas,
Cautiously cruising, studying the charts,
Duly again to port and hawser’s tie returning;
But now obey thy cherish’d secret wish,
Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,
To port and hawser’s tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.

(Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass – published 1855)