A Giant Voice

Song of the Redwood Tree by WALT Whitman

 

"A prophecy and indirection—-a thought impalpable, to breath, as air;

A chorus of dryads, fading, departing—or hamadryads departing;

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and air,

Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redwood forest dense.

Farewell, my brethren,

Farewell, O earth and sky—farewell, ye neighboring waters;

My time has ended, my term has come".

Done