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ASSURANCES.
I NEED no assurances — I
am a man who is
pre- occupied, of
his own Soul;
I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of — calm and actual faces;
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless — in vain I try to think how limitless;
I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play their swift sports through the air on pur- pose — and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they;
I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on, millions of years;
I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and ex- teriors have their exteriors — and that the eye- sight has another eye-sight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice;
I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for — and that the deaths of young women, and the deaths of little children, are provided for;
I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them — no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down — are provided for, to the minutest points;
I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance, are provided for;
I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the remain- der of the earth, politics, freedom, degrada- tions, are carefully provided for;
I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen, any where, at any time, is provided for, in the inherences of things.
I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of — calm and actual faces;
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless — in vain I try to think how limitless;
I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play their swift sports through the air on pur- pose — and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they;
I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on, millions of years;
I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and ex- teriors have their exteriors — and that the eye- sight has another eye-sight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice;
I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for — and that the deaths of young women, and the deaths of little children, are provided for;
I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them — no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down — are provided for, to the minutest points;
I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance, are provided for;
I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the remain- der of the earth, politics, freedom, degrada- tions, are carefully provided for;
I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen, any where, at any time, is provided for, in the inherences of things.
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