object:1.whitman - The World Below The Brine
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
THE world below the brine;
Forests at the bottom of the seathe branches and leaves,
Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seedsthe thick
tangle, the openings, and the pink turf,
Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and goldthe
play of light through the water,
Dumb swimmers there among the rockscoral, gluten, grass, rushes
and the aliment of the swimmers,
Sluggish existences grazing there, suspended, or slowly crawling
close to the bottom,
The sperm-whale at the surface, blowing air and spray, or disporting
with his flukes,
The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard,
and the sting-ray;
Passions therewars, pursuits, tribessight in those ocean-depths
breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do;
The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed
by beings like us, who walk this sphere;
The change onward from ours, to that of beings who walk other
spheres.
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