Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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41

 I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
 And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
 
 I heard what was said of the universe,
 Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
 It is middling well as far as it goes--but is that all?
 
 Magnifying and applying come I,
 Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,
 Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah,
 Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,
 Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha,
 In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix
 engraved,
 With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image,
 Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
 Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
 (They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly
 and sing for themselves,)
 Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself,
 bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
 Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
 Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves
 driving the mallet and chisel,
 Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of (...)
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