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DAREST thou now, O Soul,
Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region,
Where neither ground is for the feet, nor any path to follow?
2
No map, there, nor guide,
Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,
Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land.
3
I know it not, O Soul;
Nor dost thou-all is a blank before us;
All waits, undream’d of, in that region-that inaccessible land.
4
Till, when the ties loosen,
All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,
Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds, bound us.
5
Then we burst forth-we float,
In Time and Space, O Soul-prepared for them;
Equal, equipt at last-(O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil, O Soul.
(Walt Whitman)
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