"To know the universe itself as a road--as many roads--as roads for traveling souls.
The Soul travels;
The body does not travel as much as the soul;
The body has just as great a work as the soul, and parts away at last for the journeys of the soul."
Whitman is not limiting travel to physically boundries here but rather letting your mind travel and wander wherever it leads itself. He capitalizes "Soul" in the second line as if it's a person or another being completely; as if his isn't always connected to him but off traveling. I think he means to say that traveling is what you want it to be, how you let it mold itself and take form in a physical sense or mental. There are no boundries, no constraints, whatever happens along the way is suppose to happen.
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