OF what I write from myselfAs if that were not the resumé;
Of HistoriesAs if such, however complete, were not less complete than the preceding
poems;
As if those shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as lasting as the preceding
poems;
As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.
Thought.
written byWalt Whitman
© Walt Whitman