Thoughts 6

Part of the cluster THOUGHTS.

6.

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not
the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete, were
not less complete than my poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly
be as lasting as my poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of
all the lives of heroes.

Part of the cluster THOUGHTS.