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Roaming in Thought

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Roaming in Thought by Walt Whitman

 ROAMING in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening
 towards
 immortality, 
And the vast all that is call’d Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost
 and
 dead.

Form: Free verse

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