Song of Myself, L
There is that in me’I do not know what it is’but I know it is in me.
Wrench’d and sweaty’calm and cool then my body becomes,
I sleep’I sleep long.
I do not know it’it is without name’it is a word unsaid,
It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.
Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
It is not chaos or death’it is form, union, plan’it is eternal life’it is Happiness.
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