And Yet Not You Alone (Poem by Walter Whitman)

And Yet Not You Alone

By Walter Whitman

And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,

Nor you, ye lost designs alone — nor failures, aspirations;

I know, divine deceitful ones, your glamour’s seeming;

Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again — duly the hinges turning,

Duly the needed discord-parts offsetting, blending,

Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself,

The rhythmus of Birth eternal.