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230 I suppose the pink nipples of the breasts of women
 * with whom I shall sleep will touch the side of my
 * face the same,

But this is the nipple of a breast of my mother, always
 * near and always divine to me, her true child and
 * son, whatever comes.

I suppose I am to be eligible to visit the stars, in my
 * time,

I suppose I shall have myriads of new experiences—
 * and that the experience of this earth will prove
 * only one out of myriads;

But I believe my body and my Soul already indicate
 * those experiences,

And I believe I shall find nothing in the stars more
 * majestic and beautiful than I have already found
 * on the earth,

And I believe I have this night a clew through the
 * universes,

And I believe I have this night thought a thought of
 * the clef of eternity.

interlocks all, All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns,
 * moons, planets, comets, asteroids,

All the substances of the same, and all that is spiritual,
 * upon the same,

All distances of place, however wide, All distances of time—all inanimate forms, All Souls—all living bodies, though they be ever so
 * different, or in different worlds,

All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes—
 * the fishes, the brutes,