| This Compost By Walt Whitman Behold this compost! behold it well! | |
| Perhaps every mite has once form’d part of a sick person—Yet behold! | |
| The grass of spring covers the prairies, | |
| The bean bursts noislessly through the mould in the garden, | 20 |
| The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward, | |
| The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches, | |
| The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves, | |
| The tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree, | |
| The he-birds carol mornings and evenings, while the she-birds sit on their nests, | 25 |
| The young of poultry break through the hatch’d eggs, | |
| The new-born of animals appear—the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare, | |
| Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato’s dark green leaves, | |
| Out of its hill rises the yellow maize-stalk—the lilacs bloom in the door-yards; | |
| The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead. I have just recently been watching the T.V. series "Six Feet Under" on HBO. This section of the Whitman poem reminds me of the show a lot. |
Friday, September 11, 2009
Six Feet Under
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