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A poem by Walt Whitman

Germs

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Title:     Germs
Author: Walt Whitman [More Titles by Whitman]

Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,

The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars,

The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,

Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,

Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,

Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,

That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all.





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Walt Whitman's poem: Germs

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