Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 O vast Rondure, swimming in space,
 Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty,
 Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,
 Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
 Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,
 With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,
 Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
 
 Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,
 Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
 Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations,
 With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,
 With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and
 Whither O mocking life?
 
 Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
 Who Justify these restless explorations?
 Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
 Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?
 What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a
 throb to answer ours,
 Cold earth, the place of graves.)
 
 Yet soul be sure the first intent (...)
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