THIS day, O Soul, I give you a wondrous mirror;

I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate?We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.Births have brought us richness and variety,And other births will bring us richness and variety.I do not call one…

I stand apart to hear–it never tires me.To you, your name also;Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations inthe sound of your name?

needed most, I bring;Forth from the army, the war emerging–a book I have made,The words of my book nothing–the drift of it everything;A book separate, not link’d with the rest, nor felt by the intellect,But you, ye untold latencies, will thrill to every page;Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing, eternalIdentity,To…

That is nothing, that is quell’d by one or two failures, or anynumber of failures,Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by anyunfaithfulness,Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.Revolt! and still revolt! revolt!What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents,and all the islands and…

Flag of death! (how I watch’d you through the smoke of battlepressing!How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dappled!Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crimson!Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!My sacred one, my mother.

affecting in large masses of men, following the lead of thosewho do not believe in men.