Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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48

 I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
 And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
 And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
 And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own
 funeral drest in his shroud,
 And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
 And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the
 learning of all times,
 And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it
 may become a hero,
 And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
 And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed
 before a million universes.
 
 And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
 For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
 (No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and
 about death.)
 
 I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
 Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
 
 Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
 I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
 In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
 I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd
 by God's name,
 And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
 Others will punctually come for ever and ever.