Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
complete book, e-book

Nové Literární doupě!

Literární doupě bylo modernizováno a přechází pod novou doménu literdo.com!.

Nový web LD vám přínáší ještě více knih s možností výhodného stahování většího množství e-knih podle vlastního výběru (tedy nejen jednotlivých knih nebo balíčků podle autorů) ve formátech ePub , PDF  a MOBI.

 Přejít na nový web Literární doupě

 

3

 I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the
 beginning and the end,
 But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
 
 There was never any more inception than there is now,
 Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
 And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
 Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
 
 Urge and urge and urge,
 Always the procreant urge of the world.
 
 Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and
 increase, always sex,
 Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
 To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.
 
 Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well
 entretied, braced in the beams,
 Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
 I and this mystery here we stand.
 
 Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
 
 Lack one lacks both, and the unseen (...)
(......)