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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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YOU TIDES WITH CEASELESS SWELL.
You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work! |
You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's
spread,
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Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations, |
What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what
Sirius'? what Capella's?
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What central heart—and you the pulse—vivifies all? what
boundless aggregate of all?
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What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to
all in you? what fluid, vast identity,
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Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship? |
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