Finally comes the poet

Walt Whitman - colouring by Dana Keller

After the seas are all cross’d, (as they seem already

cross’d,)

After the great captains and engineers have accomplish’d

their work,

After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist,

the geologist, ethnologist,

Finally shall come the poet worthy of that name,

The true son of God shall come singing his songs.

                                                              Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass