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


Walt Whitman