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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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KOSMOS.
WHO includes diversity and is Nature, |
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sex-
uality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and
the equilibrium also,
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Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing,
or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
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Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic
lover,
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Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism,
and of the aesthetic or intellectual,
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Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts
good,
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Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body under-
stands by subtle analogies all other theories,
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The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these
States;
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Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in
other globes with their suns and moons,
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Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day
but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
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The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable to-
gether.
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