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218 I do not doubt there is more in myself than I have
 * supposed—and more in all men and women—
 * and more in my poems than I have supposed;

I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on,
 * millions of years;

I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and
 * exteriors have their exteriors—and that the
 * eye-sight has another eye-sight, and the hearing
 * another hearing, and the voice another voice;

I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of
 * young men are provided for—and that the
 * deaths of young women, and the deaths of little
 * children, are provided for;

I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the
 * horrors of them—no matter whose wife, child,
 * husband, father, lover, has gone down—are provided
 * for, to the minutest point;

I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malignance,
 * are provided for;

I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the remainder
 * of the earth, politics, freedom, degradations,
 * are carefully provided for;

I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen,
 * any where, at any time, is provided for, in the
 * inherences of things.