Grand Is the Seen

By Walt Whitman

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.