Grand Is the Seen
Walt Whitman, Ernst Bacon
Grand is the seen, the light, to me–grand are the sky and stars
Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space
And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;
But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those
Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing
The sea
(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what
Amount without thee?)
More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul!
More multiform far–more lasting thou than they