What is the meaning of To Keep Tally

Here is a quot from Bloom's essay on Whitman:

His knowledge and sexuality are one, and we need to ask: how does that sexual self-knowing keep tally with the meaning of all things?

It refers to the following line of Whitman:

My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things,

Now, what is the meaning of keeping tally with something? It seems it is idiomatic and doesn't relate to the meaning of tally as a record of a score.

Solution 1:

Tallying a sports score is just one sense. Etymonline provides an explanation of all the senses:

tally (n.)

mid-15c., "stick marked with notches to indicate amount owed or paid," from Anglo-French tallie (early 14c., Old French taille "notch in a piece of wood signifying a debt"), Anglo-Latin talea (late 12c.), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea "a cutting, rod, stick" (see tailor (n.), and compare sense history of score). Meaning "a thing that matches another" first recorded 1650s, from practice of splitting a tally lengthwise across the notches, debtor and creditor each retaining one of the halves; the usual method of keeping accounts [to tally] before writing became general (the size of the notches varied with the amount). Sports sense of "a total score" is from 1856. Also in 19c. British provincial verbal expression live tally, make a tally bargain "live as husband and wife without marrying."

In this question, to tally is to record or keep a record of something.