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


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First Line: Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts
Last Line: Germs of all.


Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars,
The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
Wonders as of those countries, the 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 containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the
germs of all.





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