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| J.W. of Derby - Le gladiateur à la chandelle (1765) |
Les vers qui suivent sont du poète américain Walt Whitman (1819-1892), extraits de Leaves of grass (Feuilles d'herbe) :
Of the terrible doubt of appearances.
Of the terrible doubt of appearances,
Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded,
That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions,
and the real something has yet to be known…

