| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 123. Grand is the Seen |
| By Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
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| GRAND is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars, | |
| Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space, | |
| And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary; | |
| But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those, | |
| Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea, | 5 |
| (What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?) | |
| More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul! | |
| More multiform far—more lasting thou than they. | |
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