“Come, said my Soul”

Come, said my soul,
Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
That should I after return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
(Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)
Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning–as, first, I here and now
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,

By Walt Whitman

Here is a picture of Walt Whitman’s handwritten rough drafts of  the poem. I find had written drafts extremely romantic and beautiful.

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”  Emily Dickinson

Belo dia,

<3

Vanessa D’Amore