Walt Whitman (uit SONG OF MYSELF)

 

 

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There is that in me - I do not know what it is - but I know it is in me.

 

Wrench'd and sweaty - calm and cool then my body becomes,

I sleep - I sleep long.

 

I do not know it - it is without name - it is a word unsaid,

It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.

 

Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,

To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.

 

Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers 

        and sisters.

 

Do you see O my brothers and sisters?

It is not chaos or death - it is form, union, plan - it is eternal life-

        it is Happyness.

 

 

(Uit: Leaves of Grass)

 

 

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