Come Said My Soul

Come, said my soul,

Such verses for my body let us write, (For we are One),

That should I after death invisibly return,

Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,

There to some group of mates the chants resuming,(Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on Ever and ever to the verses owning - as, first,

I here and now,

Signing for soul and body, set them to my name,

Walt Whitman.