A Farm Picture

a christian poet reading a page of the koran and all taken up by how god himself could be so emotionally worked up by the beauty of the cattle walking in a line on a plain, admiring, appreciating his own creation well men were created in his likeness how wrong they have taken this likeness to mean only appearances but god fumes, curses, kills, sometimes whole cities all over the bibles, and if you like the koran a christian poet lost in the lines all about an entity, an entity brighter than light, more eminent than all the intelligences put together inspired by A Farm-Picture THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away. Walt Whitman