Song of the Universal I
Come said
the muse,
Sing me
a song no poet yet has chanted,
Sing me
the universal.
In
this broad earth of ours,
Amid the
measureless gross and the slag;
Enclosed
and safe within its central heart,
Nestles
the seed perfection.
By
every life a share or more or less,
None born
but it is born, conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is waiting.
© Walt WhitmanLeaves
of Grass 1892