THINK of the Soul; <br /> I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul <br /> somehow to live in other spheres; <br /> I do not know how, but I know it is so. <br /> <br /> Think of loving and being loved; <br /> I swear to you, whoever you are, you can interfuse yourself with such <br /> things that everybody that sees you shall look longingly upon <br /> you. <br /> <br /> Think of the past; <br /> I warn you that in a little while others will find their past in you <br /> and your times. <br /> <br /> The race is never separated--nor man nor woman escapes; <br /> All is inextricable--things, spirits, Nature, nations, you too--from <br /> precedents you come. <br /> <br /> Recall the ever-welcome defiers, (The mothers precede them;) 10 <br /> Recall the sages, poets, saviors, inventors, lawgivers, of the earth; <br /> Recall Christ, brother of rejected persons--brother of slaves, <br /> felons, idiots, and of insane and diseas'd persons. <br /> <br /> Think of the time when you were not yet born; <br /> Think of times you stood at the side of the dying; <br /> Think of the time when your own body will be dying. <br /> <br /> Think of spiritual results, <br /> Sure as the earth swims through the heavens, does every one of its <br /> objects pass into spiritual results. <br /> <br /> Think of manhood, and you to be a man; <br /> Do you count manhood, and the sweet of manhood, nothing? <br /> <br /> Think of womanhood, and you to be a woman; 20 <br /> The creation is womanhood; <br /> Have I not said that womanhood involves all? <br /> Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best <br /> womanhood?<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/think-of-the-soul/
