Isn't this what we are all trying to do? Bring ourselves into balance no matter the contingencies.
Here is the verse:
| ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, | |
| Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things, | |
| Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, | |
| Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought; | |
| Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary—all these subordinate, (I am eternally equal with the best—I am not subordinate;) | 5 |
| Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, | |
| A river man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life in These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, | |
| Me, wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies! | |
| O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. |
