Fire Whitman

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    For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted, and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.

    Come lovely and soothing death,
    Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
    In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
    Sooner or later delicate death.
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)