Beginning My Studies
Lee Hoiby, Walt Whitman
Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion
The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love
The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much
I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther
But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs