by Whitman · Cluster: Nature · Book of Nature · Natural Order
Abstract
A mystical lyric finding in every old song, object, and life a hidden cipher of meaning infolded behind appearance, the book of nature read for secret import.
Connections
Topoi: Book of Nature Motifs: Book Reading, Stars Themes & Concepts: Appearance vs Reality, Self and Cosmos Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
I doubt it not—then more, far more;
In each old song bequeath’d—in every noble page or text,
(Different—something unreck’d before—some unsuspected author,)
In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life,
As part of each—evolv’d from each—meaning, behind the ostent,
A mystic cipher waits infolded.