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I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel’d universe,
And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign’d by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe’er I go,
Others will punctually come for ever and ever.

I have chosen stanza 48 from the poem Songs of Myself. There are multiple reasons for choosing this stanza but the primary reason is that it adds on more lighting to the thought he has been sharing all along the poem which is the importance of the “oneself”.

Here, Whitman starts up by something that he has been saying all along: the body and the soul are equals, and the self is most important of all, even more important than God. With this line being said whitman clarifies in an indirect way that god lives within oneself. He is omnipresent within us which enables us to do wonderful things in life. He emphasis this thought by adding looking out for the god is waste of time and energy as if you look beneath oneself the true god in self can be found.The writer further states by saying he is curious about the mankind, the living being around rather than the god. Every new day that we get to live, every people that we meet and every thing that we get to see god is present in all of them. So being true, kind and grateful to be able to witness all these things is a way of finding god. The writer also accepts the fact that even though he is aware of the fact that god is everywhere he denies to understand him. He truly stands by the fact that the one self is always superior than anything else.