 Each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough, None has begun to think how divine he himself...  Gems from Walt Whitman - Page 38by Walt Whitman - 1889 - 58 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cheltenham College - 1868 - 412 pages
...their ' eternal tendencies towards happiness.' And again, in his ' Chants Democratic," p. 75 : — ' Each is not for its own sake ; I say the whole earth...half devout enough — none has ever yet adored or worshipped half enough ; none has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future... | |
 | 1874 - 586 pages
...religion." They are his own words. .... The whole earth (he adds) and all the stars in the sky, arc for religion's sake. I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough ; None has ever yet adored or worshipped half enough ; None has begun to think how divine 'he himself is, and how certain the future... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...Each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion'i sake. I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough, None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future... | |
 | 1899 - 870 pages
...himself, is explained ; we understand clearly his almost total absorption in religion ; as for instance: "Each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth,...been half devout enough; None has ever yet adored or worshipped half enough; None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 pages
...prairies meeting, These and with these and the breath of my chant, I'll perfume the grave of him I love. When Lilacs Last, etc. No more for him life's stormy...been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough, None llas begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future... | |
 | 1906 - 554 pages
...though a rejecter of conventional religion, is beyond question a singer of the religion of nature. ' I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough. ' ' Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion, The... | |
 | 1889 - 532 pages
...Paumanok. EVANGEL-POEM. I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Ibid. RELIGION. I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough, None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1889 - 536 pages
...Paumanok. EVANGEL-POEM. I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Ibid. RELIGION. I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough. None has begun to think how divine he himself is. and how certain the future... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1893 - 168 pages
...the spirit similar to the words of Christ, " I and my Father are one." " I too inaugurate a religion, each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth...all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake." Starting from Paumanok. It is well to attend to this view of man's place in Nature as indicating the... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1894 - 906 pages
...You know my favorite poet, some of you; and I cut out a few lines to-night that run like this:- — Each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth...been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worshipped half enough, None has begun to think how divine he himself is. and how certain the future... | |
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