Unmitigated Admiration

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN HILLERS

Billy Bragg & Wilco: Walt Whitman's Niece

I sing the Equalities,
modern or old,
I sing the endless
finales of things;
I say Nature continues
--Glory continues;
I praise with
electric voice;
For I do not see
one imperfection
in the universe;
And I do not see
one cause or result
lamentable at last
in the universe.

O setting sun!
though the time
has come,
I still warble under you,
if none else does,
unmitigated adoration.

--Walt Whitman