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Leaves of Grass (1860)
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19.
| FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, |
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The ones known, and the ones unknown—the ones
on the stars, |
| The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, |
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Wonders as of those countries—the soil, trees, cities,
inhabitants, whatever they may be, |
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Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless
combinations and effects, |
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Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or
anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand, |
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That contains the start of each and all—the virtue,
the germs of all; |
| That is the theory as of origins. |
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