Still though the one I sing,
(One, yet of contradictions made) I dedicate to Nationality,
I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)

Poet: Walt Whitman

What though the green leaf grow?
  ’T will last a month and day;
In all sweet flowers that blow
  Lurks Death, his slave Decay.

But if my lady smile
  There is no Death at all;
The world is fair the while,—
  What though the red leaf fall...

It ceased to hurt me, though so slow

I could not feel the Anguish go —

But only knew by looking back —

That something — had benumbed the Track —


Nor when it altered, I could say,

For I had worn it, every day,...

Poet:

Our own possessions — though our own —

'Tis well to hoard anew —

Remembering the Dimensions

Of Possibility.

Poet:

Though the great Waters sleep,

That they are still the Deep,

We cannot doubt —

No vacillating God

Ignited this Abode

To put it out —

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