Poem by Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 29. Grand Is the Seen

Grand is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,
Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,
And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;
But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,
Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing
      the sea,
(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what
      amount without thee?)
More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul!
More multiform far—more lasting thou than they.

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