Countless are the Worlds -- Many Earths -- Millions of Solar Systems -- Skies Above Skies

 

Many millions are the skies and solar systems.

Many millions are the moons, the suns and stars.

Many millions are the sources of creation and continents.

Many millions are the jewel containing oceans.

Many times has the universal expanse occurred.

The Lord has strung all the creation in His thread.

His limit no one knows. 

 

(Adi Granth, Sikh Scriptures of India)

 

As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef 

 of the universes and of the future. 

A vast similitude interlocks all, 

All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,

All distances of place however wide, 

All distances of time, all inanimate forms, 

All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in 

 different worlds, 

All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, 

 the brutes,

All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages, 

All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or 

 any globe, 

All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future, 

This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d, 

And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them. 

Walt Whitman, “On the Beach At Night Alone” (1856)