The calming thought of all

" Birdwalk by Neha"

That coursing on whate'er men's speculations,
Amid the changing schools, theologies, philosophies,
Amid the bawling presentations new and old,
The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes continue.

- Walt Whitman

Credits : "The Calming Thought of All." New York Herald 27 May 1888: 12. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). ( Source: The Walt Whitman Archive , ID per.00124 )