then , to mark the occasion , tariq recites one of whitman 's poems : we two boys together clinging , one the other never leaving , up and down the roads going , north and south excursions making , power enjoying , elbows stretching , fingers clutching , arm 'd and fearless , eating , drinking , sleeping , loving , no law less than ourselves owning , sailing , soldiering , thieving , threatening , misers , menials , priests alarming , air breathing , water drinking , on the turf or the sea-beach dancing , cities wrenching , ease scorning , statutes mocking , feebleness chasing , fulfilling our foray .