I NEED no assurances--I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; <br /> I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and <br /> face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not <br /> cognizant of--calm and actual faces; <br /> I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in <br /> any iota of the world; <br /> I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless-- <br /> in vain I try to think how limitless; <br /> I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play their <br /> swift sports through the air on purpose--and that I shall one <br /> day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they; <br /> I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on, millions of <br /> years; <br /> I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have <br /> their exteriors--and that the eye-sight has another eye-sight, <br /> and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice; <br /> I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are <br /> provided for--and that the deaths of young women, and the <br /> deaths of little children, are provided for; <br /> (Did you think Life was so well provided for--and Death, the purport <br /> of all Life, is not well provided for?) <br /> I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of <br /> them--no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has <br /> gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points; 10 <br /> I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen, any where, at any <br /> time, is provided for, in the inherences of things; <br /> I do not think Life provides for all, and for Time and Space--but I <br /> believe Heavenly Death provides for all.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/assurances/
