Walt Whitman - assurances

Walt Whitman - assurances

I NEED no assurances--I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; br I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and br face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not br cognizant of--calm and actual faces; br I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in br any iota of the world; br I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless-- br in vain I try to think how limitless; br I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play their br swift sports through the air on purpose--and that I shall one br day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they; br I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on, millions of br years; br I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have br their exteriors--and that the eye-sight has another eye-sight, br and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice; br I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are br provided for--and that the deaths of young women, and the br deaths of little children, are provided for; br (Did you think Life was so well provided for--and Death, the purport br of all Life, is not well provided for?) br I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of br them--no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has br gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points; 10 br I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen, any where, at any br time, is provided for, in the inherences of things; br I do not think Life provides for all, and for Time and Space--but I br believe Heavenly Death provides for all.


User: PoemHunter.com

Views: 1

Uploaded: 2014-11-07

Duration: 02:07

Your Page Title