Poem For A Startup
I started reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass last week. We have begun to assemble a bit of a classical library up at our lake place. I have read some of Whitman’s stuff in my life, mostly in Ms. Millies Honors English class in high school. But, I never have read the complete book and there is something about reading the original text in its entirety.
I am not much on poetry, so it’s a bit of a challenge for me.
If you don’t know who Whitman is, he was one of the first great American born poets. He was considered a “Humanist“. Whitman’s publication of Leaves of Grass was considered obscene. Knowing that makes the reading more interesting.
Rudyard Kipling has some great motivational poetry. It’s easier reading than Whitman.
Whitman believed in the individual. So far what I have read Whitman was distinguishing the difference between the United States and the rest of the world. I am early in the book. The following poem reminded me of what it’s like to work and build a startup. I thought sharing this poem might be interesting. You will read and take from it different things depending on how you look at the world.
In cabin’d ships, at sea,
The boundless blue on every side expanding,
With whistling winds and music of the waves–the large imperious
waves–In such,
Or some lone bark, buoy’d on the dense marine,
Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white sails,
She cleaves the ether, mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under
many a star at night,
By sailors young and old, haply will I, a reminiscence of the land,
be read,
In full rapport at last.
Here are our thoughts–voyagers’ thoughts,
Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be
said;
The sky o’erarches here–we feel the undulating deck beneath our
feet,
We feel the long pulsation–ebb and flow of endless motion;
The tones of unseen mystery–the vague and vast suggestions of the
briny world–the liquid-flowing syllables,
The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy
rhythm,
The boundless vista, and the horizon far and dim, are all here,
And this is Ocean’s poem.
Then falter not, O book! fulfil your destiny!
You, not a reminiscence of the land alone,
You too, as a lone bark, cleaving the ether–purpos’d I know
not whither–yet ever full of faith,
Consort to every ship that sails–sail you!
Bear forth to them, folded, my love–(Dear mariners! for you I fold
it here, in every leaf;)
Speed on, my Book! spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart
the imperious waves!
Chant on–sail on–bear o’er the boundless blue, from me, to every
shore,
This song for mariners and all their ships.
Source: http://pointsandfigures.com/2019/08/05/poem-for-a-startup/
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