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20—Faith Poem.

I NEED no assurances—I am a man who is          pre-occupied of his own soul;

I do not doubt that whatever I know at a given          time, there waits for me more which I do not          know;

I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside          the hands and face I am cognizant of, are          now looking faces I am not cognizant of —          calm and actual faces;

I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the          world is latent in any iota of the world;

I do not doubt there are realizations I have          no idea of, waiting for me through time          and through the universes—also upon this          earth;

I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the uni-          verses are limitless—in vain I try to think          how limitless;

I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of          orbs, play their swift sports through the air View Page 266 on purpose—and that I shall one day be          eligible to do as much as they, and more than          they;

I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities,          insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds,          rejected refuse, than I have supposed;

I do not doubt there is more in myself than I have          supposed—and more in all men and women          —and more in my poems than I have          supposed;

I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and          on, millions of years;

I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and          exteriors have their exteriors—and that the          eye-sight has another eye-sight, and the hear-          ing another hearing, and the voice another          voice;

I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths          of young men are provided for—and that the          deaths of young women, and the deaths of          little children, are provided for;

I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter          what the horrors of them—no matter whose          wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone          down—are provided for, to the minutest          point;

I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig-          nance, are provided for;

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I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the          remainder of the earth, politics, freedom,          degradations, are carefully provided for;

I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen,          any where, at any time, is provided for, in          the inherences of things.

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