Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONTINUITIES, by WALT WHITMAN


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First Line: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost
Last Line: With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection


Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form -- no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space -- ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold -- the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for
noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.





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