 | Leaves of grass (1872) |  |
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To think of time—of all that retrospection!To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward!
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Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?Have you dreaded these earth-beetles?
Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you?
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Is to-day nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing?If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing.
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To think that the sun rose in the east! that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that everything was alive!To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part!
To think that we are now here, and bear our part!
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |