Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 The Lord advances, and yet advances,
 Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the
 laggards.
 
 Out of this face emerge banners and horses--O superb! I see what is coming,
 I see the high pioneer-caps, see staves of runners clearing the way,
 I hear victorious drums.
 
 This face is a life-boat,
 This is the face commanding and bearded, it asks no odds of the rest,
 This face is flavor'd fruit ready for eating,
 This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.
 
 These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,
 They show their descent from the Master himself.
 
 Off the word I have spoken I except not one--red, white, black, are
 all deific,
 In each house is the ovum, it comes forth after a thousand years.
 
 Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
 Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me,
 I read the promise and patiently wait.
 
 This is a full-grown lily's face,
 She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,
 Come here she blushingly cries, Come nigh to me limber-hipp'd man,
 Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
 Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me,
 Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my breast and shoulders.