Grand Is the Seen
1819-1892
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.
DayPoems Poem No. 2252
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2252.html">Grand Is the Seen by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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