自性吾歌詠，平凡個個人
卻能表眾意，亦能述群體

生理吾歌詠，由首至足趾，
詩非獨取貌，也非只崇腦，
身心合全形，我說乃至高，
女人吾歌詠，男人等如是。

生命無窮盡，激動復蓬勃，
強勁與致興，自由最勝行，
天道所契成，時人吾歌詠。

譯 Walt Whitman

One's-Self I Sing

  One's-self I sing, a simple separate person,
  Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.

  Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
  Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say
      the Form complete is worthier far,
  The Female equally with the Male I sing.

  Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
  Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
  The Modern Man I sing.