Kosmos

by Walt Whitman · 1867
Published 01/07/1867

WHO includes diversity, and is Nature,

Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great char-itycharity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,

Who has not look'd forth from the windows, the eyes, for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing;

Who contains believers and disbelievers—Who is the most majestic lover;

Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of real-ismrealism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic, or in-tellectualintelltual,

Who, having consider'd the Body, finds all its organs and parts good;

Who, out of the theory of the earth, and of his or her body, understands by subtle analogies all other theories,

The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large poli-ticspolitics of These States;

Who believes not only in our globe, with its sun and moon, but in other globes, with their suns and moons;

Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day, but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,

The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, insep-arableinseparable together.

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