The Body Cosmic - Iapetus

«As I see my soul reflected in Nature

As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible

Completeness, sanity, beauty

See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the

Female I see.»

«Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off

Just as much as you

Each has his or her place in the procession

(All is a procession

The universe is a procession with measured and perfect

Motion).»

«Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies

Conceal themselves?

And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who

Defile the dead?

And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?

And if the body were not the soul, then what is the soul?»

— «I Sing The Body Electric,» Walt Whitman