The text of Linda Kachelmeier’s "Each of Us" is an excerpt from Walt Whitman’s poem “Salut au Monde!” (“Hello World!”). Let it remind you that you are “here as divinely as any”—that the world is big enough for all of us, so long as we can work together. This song speaks powerfully to our shared humanity, our responsibility to this planet, and our limitless human possibility.
“Each of us inevitable.
Each of us limitless—
each of us with his or her right upon the earth,
Each of us allowed the eternal purport of the earth,
Each of us here as divinely as any is here.”
(My thanks to Walt Whitman, Linda Kachelmeier, and the Cleveland Chamber Choir.)
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