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Lyrify.me

Kosmos by Walt Whitman Lyrics

Genre: misc | Year: 1855

Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and         sexuality of the earth, and the great charity 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,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most         majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism,
        spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or intellectual,
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 politics 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, inseparable         together.