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  <TITLE>Darest Thou Now O Soul</TITLE>
  <POET>Walt Whitman</POET>

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    <VERSE>Darest thou now O soul,</VERSE>
    <VERSE>Walk out with me toward the unknown region,</VERSE>
    <VERSE>Where neither ground is for the feet nor 
            any path to follow?</VERSE>
  </STANZA> 
   <STANZA>
     <VERSE>No map there, nor guide,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>Nor voice sounding, nor touch of 
            human hand,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, 
            are in that land.</VERSE>
  </STANZA>
   <STANZA>
     <VERSE>I know it not O soul,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>Nor dost thou, all is blank before us,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>All waits undream'd of in that region, 
            that inaccessible land.</VERSE>
  </STANZA>
   <STANZA>
     <VERSE>Till when the ties loosen,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, 
            nor any bounds bounding us.</VERSE>
  </STANZA>
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     <VERSE>Then we burst forth, we float,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>In Time and Space O soul, 
            prepared for them,</VERSE>
     <VERSE>Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!)
           them to fulfil O soul.</VERSE>
  </STANZA>
  
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