And Yet Not You Alone

by Walt Whitman · 1891-1892
Published 01/07/1891

And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,

Nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;

I know, divine deceitful ones, your glamour's seeming;

Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,

Duly the needed discord-parts offsetting, blending,

Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself,

The rhythmus of Birth eternal.

#cosmic cycles #death and rebirth #existentialism #twilight #walt whitman

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