Laws For Creations

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)




   LAWS for Creations,
   For strong artists and leaders--for fresh broods of teachers, and
         perfect literats for America,
   For noble savans, and coming musicians.

   All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact
         truth of the world;
   There shall be no subject too pronounced--All works shall illustrate
         the divine law of indirections.

   What do you suppose Creation is?
   What do you suppose will satisfy the Soul, except to walk free, and
         own no superior?
   What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but
         that man or woman is as good as God?
   And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
   And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?    10
   And that you or any one must approach Creations through such laws?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABXA XXXA XBXXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
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Words 138
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 8

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