The Mystic Cipher

I doubt it not – then more, far more;

In each old song bequeath’d – in every noble page or text,

(Different – something, unreck’d before –

   some unsuspected author,)

In every object, mountain, tree, and star – in every birth and life,

As part of each – evolv’d from each – meaning, behind the ostent,

A mystic cipher waits infolded.

– Walt Whitman, “Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher”, 1891