continuities

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself".    

Again:Walt Whitman


Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form---no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere
confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space---ample the field and
nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold---the embers left from earlier fires,
light in the eye grown dim shall duly flame again; The sun now low in the west rises for mornings
and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible land
returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and
corn.