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Rh Lighting on every moment of my life, Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses, Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.

Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!

Every condition promulges not only itself .... it promulges what grows after and out of itself, And the dark hush promulges as much as any.

I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.

Wider and wider they spread, expanding and always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.

My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels, He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit, And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.

There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage; If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run, We should surely bring up again where we now stand, And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.

A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient, They are but parts .... any thing is but a part.

See ever so far .... there is limitless space outside of that, Count ever so much .... there is limitless time around that.

Our rendezvous is fitly appointed .... God will be there and wait till we come.

I know I have the best of time and space – and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.

I tramp a perpetual journey, My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods; No friend of mine takes his case in my chair, I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy; I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,