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At 5:49am on December 14, 2009, The Ancient One said…: SUN OF REAL PEACE
by Walt Whitman

O Sun of real peace! O hastening light!
O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!
O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height—
and you too, O my Ideal, will surely ascend!
O so amazing and broad— up there resplendent, darting and burning!
O vision prophetic, stagger'd with weight of light! with pouring glories!
O lips of my soul, already becoming powerless!
O ample and grand Presidentiads! Now the war, the war is over!
New history! new heroes! I project you!
Visions of poets! only you really last! sweep on! sweep on!
O heights too swift and dizzy yet!
O purged and luminous! you threaten me more than I can stand!
(I must not venture— the ground under my feet menaces me—
it will not support me: O future too immense,)—
O present, I return, while yet I may, to you.

First published in 1860 as part of Apostroph.

At 11:48am on December 13, 2009, Richard Lukens said…: Hi Rita... thanks for joining the site and starting a group... I hope you like it here and can poke around a bit to see what is happening...

All the best to you,

-Rick