The speaker simulates a universal experience of attending church--sitting and standing before God, singing praise, offerings, etc.--and then going back out into the streets "No longer Before Him."
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AUTHOR(S) OF - Before Him, A Picture (After Walt Whitman)
Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.
