"I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can." -from "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" - Walt Whitman

I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great…

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.

I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the
whole of the rest of the earth,
I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.