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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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TO THE GARDEN THE WORLD
| TO the garden the world anew ascending, |
| Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, |
| The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, |
| Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, |
| The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again, |
| Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, |
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My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for
reasons, most wondrous, |
| Existing I peer and penetrate still, |
| Content with the present, content with the past, |
| By my side or back of me Eve following, |
| Or in front, and I following her just the same. |