For Him I Sing, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖

Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1855 – translated from English into Italian by Enzo Martinelli

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For Him I Sing

FOR him I sing,
I raise the present on the past,
(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
To make himself by them the law unto himself.

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Per lui io canto

PER lui canto,
Alzo il presente sul passato,
(Come un albero perenne dalle sue stesse radici, il presente sul passato)
Lui col tempo e con lo spazio io dilato e fondo le leggi immortali,
Per farlo divenire attraverso queste la legge in se stesso.