Leaves of grass. | ||
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180 All truths wait in all
things;
They neither hasten their own delivery, nor resist it;
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon;
The insignificant is as big to me as any;
(What is less or more than a touch?)
181 Logic and sermons never convince;
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
182 Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so;
Only what nobody denies is so.
183 A minute and a drop of
me settle my brain;
I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson, until it becomes omnific,
And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
They neither hasten their own delivery, nor resist it;
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon;
The insignificant is as big to me as any;
(What is less or more than a touch?)
181 Logic and sermons never convince;
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
182 Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so;
Only what nobody denies is so.
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I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson, until it becomes omnific,
And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
Leaves of grass. | ||