Epigraph

Come, said my Soul,Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,There to some group of mates the chants resuming,(Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on,Ever and ever yet the verses owning—as, first, I here and now,Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,