The narrator is "face to face" with the "clouds of the west" and the "sun there half an hour high," and opens this twelve stanza poem with the exclamation "Flood-tide below me!"
In this poem's final stanza, the narrator claims "we descend upon you and all things" and addresses them as "you dumb, beautiful ministers! you novices!" This poem's briefest section concludes "Whatever it is, it avails not- distance avails not, and place avails not" after asking "What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?" One version of this poem was titled "Sun-Down Poem," and its narrator opens five consecutive lines with the phrase "just as you" in comparing himself to the "Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes." The narrator is "face to face" with the "clouds of the west" and the "sun there half an hour high," and opens this twelve stanza poem with the exclamation "Flood-tide below me!" For 10 points, name this Walt Whitman poem whose narrator sees the "shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east."
In this poem's final stanza, the narrator claims "we descend upon you and all things" and addresses them as "you dumb, beautiful ministers!
“{Crossing} Brooklyn {Ferry}”