Assurances

I NEED no assurances—I am a man who is pre-occupiedpreoccupied, of his own Soul;

I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of—calm and actual faces;

I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world;

I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless;

I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play their swift sports through the air on pur-posepurpose—and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they;

I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on, millions of years;

I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and ex-teriorsexteriors have their exteriors—and that the eye-sighteyesight has another eye-sight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice;

I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for—and that the deaths of young women, and the deaths of little children, are provided for;

I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them—no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down—are provided for, to the minutest points;

I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig-nancemalignance, are provided for;

I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the remain-derremainder of the earth, politics, freedom, degrada-tionsdegradations, are carefully provided for;

I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen, any where, at any time, is provided for, in the inherences of things.