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Assurances

I NEED no assurances--I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul;
I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and
   face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not
   cognizant of--calm and actual faces;
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in
   any iota of the world;
I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless--
   in vain I try to think how limitless;
I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play their
   swift sports through the air on purpose--and that I shall one
   day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they;
I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on, millions of
   years; I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have
   their exteriors--and that the eye-sight has another eye-sight,
   and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice;
I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are
   provided for--and that the deaths of young women, and the
   deaths of little children, are provided for;
(Did you think Life was so well provided for--and Death, the purport
   of all Life, is not well provided for?)
I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of
   them--no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has
   gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points;
I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen, any where, at any
   time, is provided for, in the inherences of things;
I do not think Life provides for all, and for Time and Space--but I
   believe Heavenly Death provides for all.