HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals;) <br /> How dear and dreadful they are to the earth; <br /> How they inure to themselves as much as to any--What a paradox <br /> appears their age; <br /> How people respond to them, yet know them not; <br /> How there is something relentless in their fate, all times; <br /> How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward, <br /> And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same <br /> great purchase.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beginners/
