Leaves of Grass (1867)
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| 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- ity 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; |
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| Who contains believers and disbelievers—Who is the
most majestic lover; |
| Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of real-
ism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic, or in- tellectual, |
| 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-
tics 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-
arable together. |