36. EARTH! My likeness! Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, I now suspect that is
36.
EARTH! My likeness!
Though you look so impassive,
ample and spheric there,
I now suspect that is not all;
I now suspect there is something fierce in you,
eligible to burst forth;
For an athlete is enamoured of me – and I of him,
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me,
eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words –
not even in these songs.
-Walt Whitman, Calamus Thirty-six, Leaves of Grass
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