Religion

Tests

by Walt Whitman 1819–1892

From Leaves of Grass

Religion

All submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to
analysis in the soul,
Not traditions, not the outer authorities are the judges,
They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,
They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves,
and touches themselves;
For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far
and near without one exception.

MLA

Whitman, Walt. “Tests.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/218/.

Chicago

Whitman, Walt. “Tests.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/218/.

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