Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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5

 Will the whole come back then?
 Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is
 there nothing greater or more?
 Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
 
 Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
 Objects gross and the unseen soul are one.
 
 House-building, measuring, sawing the boards,
 Blacksmithing, glass-blowing, nail-making, coopering, tin-roofing,
 shingle-dressing,
 Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,
 The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln and brickkiln,
 Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness,
 echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts
 looking through smutch'd faces,
 Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men
 around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the
 due combining of ore, limestone, coal,
 The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the
 bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars
 of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped Trail for railroads,
 Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house,
 steam-saws, the great mills and factories,
 Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for facades or window or door-lintels,
 the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,
 The calking-iron, the kettle of boiling vault-cement, and the fire
 under the kettle,
 The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the
 sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the
 butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,
 The work and tools of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker,
 Goods of gutta-percha, papier-mache, colors, brushes, brush-making,
 glazier's implements,
 The veneer and glue-pot, the confectioner's ornaments, the decanter
 and glasses, the shears and flat-iron,
 The awl and knee-strap, (...)
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