“…The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps;
The head of the moneymaker that plotted all day sleeps,
And the enraged and treacherous dispositions sleep.

I stand with drooping eyes but the worstsuffering and restless,
I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;
The restless sink in their beds…they fitfully sleep.

The earth recedes from me into the night,
I saw that it was beautiful… and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.

I go from bedside to bedside… I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;
I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
And I become the other dreamers.

I am a dance… Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast…”

Trecho de Folhas de Relva – Walt Whitman