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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534989" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eidólons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I MET a Seer,<br> Passing the hues and objects of the world,<br> The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,<br> To glean Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Put in thy chants, said he,<br> No more the puzzling hour, nor day--nor segments, parts, put in,<br> Put first before the rest, as light for all, and entrance-song of<br> all,<br> That of Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ever the dim beginning;<br> Ever the growth, the rounding of the circle; 10<br> Ever the summit, and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)<br> Eidólons! Eidólons!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ever the mutable!<br> Ever materials, changing, crumbling, re-cohering;<br> Ever the ateliers, the factories divine,<br> Issuing Eidólons!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lo! I or you!<br> Or woman, man, or State, known or unknown,<br> We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build,<br> But really build Eidólons. 20</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The ostent evanescent;<br> The substance of an artist's mood, or savan's studies long,<br> Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's toils,<br> To fashion his Eidólon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Of every human life,<br> (The units gather'd, posted--not a thought, emotion, deed, left out;)<br> The whole, or large or small, summ'd, added up,<br> In its Eidólon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The old, old urge;<br> Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo! newer, higher pinnacles; 30<br> From Science and the Modern still impell'd,<br> The old, old urge, Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The present, now and here,<br> America's busy, teeming, intricate whirl,<br> Of aggregate and segregate, for only thence releasing,<br> To-day's Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> These, with the past,<br> Of vanish'd lands--of all the reigns of kings across the sea,<br> Old conquerors, old campaigns, old sailors' voyages,<br> Joining Eidólons. 40</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Densities, growth, façades,<br> Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,<br> Far-born, far-dying, living long, to leave,<br> Eidólons everlasting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Exaltè, rapt, extatic,<br> The visible but their womb of birth,<br> Of orbic tendencies to shape, and shape, and shape,<br> The mighty Earth-Eidólon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> All space, all time,<br> (The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns, 50<br> Swelling, collapsing, ending--serving their longer, shorter use,)<br> Fill'd with Eidólons only.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The noiseless myriads!<br> The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!<br> The separate, countless free identities, like eyesight;<br> The true realities, Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Not this the World,<br> Nor these the Universes--they the Universes,<br> Purport and end--ever the permanent life of life,<br> Eidólons, Eidólons. 60</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Beyond thy lectures, learn'd professor,<br> Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope, observer keen--beyond all<br> mathematics,<br> Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy--beyond the chemist with his<br> chemistry,<br> The entities of entities, Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Unfix'd, yet fix'd;<br> Ever shall be--ever have been, and are,<br> Sweeping the present to the infinite future,<br> Eidólons, Eidólons, Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The prophet and the bard,<br> Shall yet maintain themselves--in higher stages yet, 70<br> Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy--interpret yet to them,<br> God, and Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And thee, My Soul!<br> Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations!<br> Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,<br> Thy mates, Eidólons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thy Body permanent,<br> The Body lurking there within thy Body,<br> The only purport of the Form thou art--the real I myself,<br> An image, an Eidólon. 80</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thy very songs, not in thy songs;<br> No special strains to sing--none for itself;<br> But from the whole resulting, rising at last and floating,<br> A round, full-orb'd Eidólon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534989" data-title="Eidólons de Walt Whitman" data-description="I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, To glean Eidólons. 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