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Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)

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Song of Prudence

 Manhattan's streets I saunter'd pondering,
 On Time, Space, Reality--on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
 
 The last explanation always remains to be made about prudence,
 Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that
 suits immortality.
 
 The soul is of itself,
 All verges to it, all has reference to what ensues,
 All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence,
 Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day,
 month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
 But the same affects him or her onward afterward through the
 indirect lifetime.
 
 The indirect is just as much as the direct,
 The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the
 body, if not more.
 
 Not one word or deed, not venereal sore, discoloration, privacy of
 the onanist,
 Putridity of gluttons or rum-drinkers, peculation, cunning,
 betrayal, murder, seduction, prostitution,
 But has results beyond death as really as before death.
 
 Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
 
 No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that
 is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her,
 In the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope
 of it forever.
 
 Who has been wise receives interest,
 Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat,
 young, old, it is the same,
 The interest will come round--all will come round.
 
 Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect,
 all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
 All the brave actions of war and peace,
 All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful,
 young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
 All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw
 others fill the seats of the boats,
 All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a
 friend's sake, or opinion's sake,
 All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighbors,
 All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
 All honest men baffled in strifes (...)

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