Uma vez atravessei uma cidade populosa

Once I passed through a populous city


Once I passed through a populous city, imprinting on my brain, for future use,

its shows, architecture, customs and traditions

But now of all that city I remember only the man who wandered with me there, for love of me.

Day by day, and night by night, we were together.

All else has long been forgotten by me — I remember, I say, only one rude and' ignorant man who, when I departed, long and long held me by the hand, with silent lips, sad and tremulous.


de Walt Whitman