Into A Swan

"I have said that the soul is not more than the body, / And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, / And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, / And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud, / And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth, / And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times, / And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero, / And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe, / And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

- Walt Whitman, From "Song of Myself" (In "Leaves of Grass" whitmanarchive.org/published/L…

* Featuring Aaron F.