From "Soundings" [Accepting The Universe]
"`It is all right,' said Walt Whitman to me as I was
leaving his death-bed and hearing his voice for the
last time--`It is all right.' Of course it was all
right, and it will be all right when each and all of
us fall into the last eternal sleep. Else it would
not be. Our being here is all right, is it not?
`Friendly and faithful,' says Whitman, `are the arms
that have helped me.' and friendly and faithful
must be the arms that bear us away. It was good to
come, it will be good to go--good in the large,
cosmic sense, good in that it is in keeping with
the spirit of the All."
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