|
Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
contents
| previous
| next
The Base of all Metaphysics.
A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, |
As base, and finale too, for all metaphysics. |
2 (So, to the students, the old professor, |
At the close of his crowded course.) |
View Page 130
|
3 Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and
Germanic systems,
|
Kant having studied and stated—Fichte and Schelling
and Hegel,
|
Stated the lore of Plato—and Socrates, greater than
Plato,
|
And greater than Socrates sought and stated—Christ
divine having studied long,
|
I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic
systems,
|
See the philosophies all—Christian churches and tenets
see,
|
Yet underneath Socrates clearly see—and underneath
Christ the divine I see,
|
The dear love of man for his comrade—the attraction
of friend to friend,
|
Of the well-married husband and wife—of children and
parents,
|
Of city for city, and land for land. |
contents
| previous
| next
|
| |