{"id":175795,"date":"2021-01-04T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=175795"},"modified":"2020-12-25T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T07:56:35","slug":"on-the-beach-alone-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/on-the-beach-alone-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Beach Alone at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the beach at night alone,
\nAs the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
\nAs I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
\nA vast similitude interlocks all,
\nAll spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
\nAll distances of place however wide,
\nAll distances of time, all inanimate forms,
\nAll souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
\nAll gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
\nAll nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
\nAll identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
\nAll lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
\nThis vast similitude spans them, and always has spann\u2019d,
\nAnd shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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