Long I Thought That Knowledge Alone Would Suffice Me - O If I Could But Obtain Knowledge! Then My Lands Engrossed Me - Lands Of The Prairies, Ohio'S Land, The Southern Savannas, Engrossed Me - For Them I Would Live - I Would Be Their Orator; Then I Met The Examples Of Old And New Heroes - I Heard Of Warriors, Sailors, And All Dauntless Persons - And It Seemed To Me That I Too Had It In Me To Be As Dauntless As Any - And Would Be So; And Then, To Enclose All, It Came To Me To Strike Up The Songs Of The New World - And Then I Believed My Life Must Be Spent In Singing; But Now Take Notice, Land Of The Prairies, Land Of The South Savannas, Ohio'S Land, Take Notice, You Kanuck Woods - And You Lake Huron - And All That With You Roll Toward Niagara - And You Niagara Also, And You, Californian Mountains - That You Each And All Find Somebody Else To Be Your Singer Of Songs, For I Can Be Your Singer Of Songs No Longer - One Who Loves Me Is Jealous Of Me, And Withdraws Me From All But Love, With The Rest I Dispense - I Sever From What I Thought Would Suffice Me, For It Does Not - It Is Now Empty And Tasteless To Me, I Heed Knowledge, And The Grandeur Of The States, And The Example Of Heroes, No More, I Am Indifferent To My Own Songs - I Will Go With Him I Love, It Is To Be Enough For Us That We Are Together - We Never Separate Again.