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Quotation by Walt Whitman
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A GlimpseAmerican Feuillage"An Interviewer's Item" Specimen Days and Collect (1882)A Noiseless Patient SpiderAs I Ebb'd with the Ocean of LifeRelated Subjects
nature (5) patience (3) freedom (3) war (3) time (2) hope (2) love (2) resignation (2) knowledge (2) God (2)
You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate
hence-forward,
Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves
from us,
We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
You furnish your parts, toward eternity,
Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate
hence-forward,
Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves
from us,
We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
You furnish your parts, toward eternity,
Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), U.S. poet. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (l. 127–133). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.
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