Come, said my soul, <br />Such verses for my body let us write, (For we are One), <br />That should I after death invisibly return, <br />Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, <br />There to some group of mates the chants resuming, <br />(Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultous waves,) <br />Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on <br />Ever and ever to the verses owning - as, first, I here and now, <br />Signing for soul and body, set them to my name, <br />Walt Whitman.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/come-said-my-soul/
