I NEED no assurancesI 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 ofcalm 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 limitlessin 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 purposeand 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 exteriorsand
    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 forand
    that
	the deaths of young women, and the deaths of little children, are provided for; 
(Did you think Life was so well provided forand 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 themno 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 Spacebut I believe Heavenly
    Death
	provides for all.
Assurances.
written byWalt Whitman
© Walt Whitman






