Another gem from Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets:
On the Beach at Night Alone
by Walt WhitmanOn the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes, and of the future.A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.Share directly from Poem-A-Day:
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Googled “on the beach at night alone” and found this, from Adventures of a Tiny Lady – copyright by AoaTL
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 