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138 Even the tiniest things are miraculous:

Thus Whitman’s soul is almost always joyous. At certain moments his physical and spiritual delight in the spectacle of the world transports him into a well-nigh Dionysiac frenzy. Read, for instance, the Song of Joys, wherein all joys from that of “bathing in the swimming bath” to the “prophetic joys of better” are enumerated and invoked.