The PoetA moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray:
They overleapt the horizon's edge,
Searched with Apollo's privilege;
Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
Saw the dance of nature forward far;
Through worlds and races, and terms, and times,
Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray:
They overleapt the horizon's edge,
Searched with Apollo's privilege;
Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
Saw the dance of nature forward far;
Through worlds and races, and terms, and times,
Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series, 1844
"I absorb it all."
Walt Whitman
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