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1819–1892

Grand Is the Seen

Walt Whitman

Grand is the seen, the light, to me — grand are the sky and stars, Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space, And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary; But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,

Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea, ( What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee? ) More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul! More multiform far — more lasting thou than they.

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