Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and
 that of India,
 I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.
 
 I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in
 human forms,
 I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles,
 sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
 I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe
 and vervain,
 I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old
 signifiers.
 
 I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of
 youths and old persons,
 I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd
 faithfully and long and then died,
 I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the
 beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
 I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on
 his head,
 I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people
 Do not weep for me,
 This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true
 country, I now go back there,
 I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.