Mind's Eye

A Hub for the Universe
from "Song of Myself"
Walt Whitman

I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to 
      his funeral  drest in his shroud,
And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the 
     pick of the earth,
And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod 
     confounds the learning of all times,
And there is no trade or employment but the young man
     following  it may become a hero,
And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for 
     the wheel'd  universe,
And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand 
     cool and composed before a million universes.