From
Leaves of Grass, by
Walt Whitman:
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 ressurrection after
slumber,
The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
Amorous,
mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
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 of back of me
Eve following,
Or in front, and I following her just the same.