FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones unknownthe ones on the stars,
The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
Wonders as of those countriesthe 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 in a
handful
of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand;
That contains the start of each and allthe virtue, the germs of all.
Germs.
written byWalt Whitman
© Walt Whitman