52. Allons! Through struggles and wars!

The goal that was named cannot be countermanded.

53. Have the past struggles succeeded?

What has succeeded?

Nature?

Now understand me well

Yourself? Your nation?

essence of things, that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

54. My call is the call of battle-I nourish active rebellion,

He going with me must go well armed,

He going with me goes often with spared diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.

55. Allons! The road is before us!

I have tried it-my own feet have tried

56. Allons! Be not detained!

Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopened!

Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearned!

Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher! Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.

57. Mon enfant! I give you my hand!

I give you my love, more precious than money,
I give you myself, before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel
with me?

Shall we stick by each other as long as we live ?

TO THE SAYERS OF WORDS.

1. EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, ani mals all these are words to be said,

Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances - beings, premonitions, lispings of the future,

Behold! these are vast words to be said.

2. Were you thinking that those were the words - those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots ?

No, those are not the words

are in the ground and sea,

-the substantial words

They are in the air—they are in you.

3. Were you thinking that those were the words. those delicious sounds out of your friends'

mouths?

No, the real words are more delicious than they.

4. Human bodies are words, myriads of words, In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,

Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.

5. Air, soil, water, fire, these are words,

I myself am a word with them- my qualities interpenetrate with theirs my name is nothing to them,

Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?

6. A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words, sayings, meanings,

The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.

7. The workmanship of Souls is by the inaudible words of the earth,

The great masters, the sayers, know the earth's words, and use them more than the audible words.

8. Amelioration is one of the earth's words, The earth neither lags nor hastens,

It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,

It is not half beautiful only - defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.

9. The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough, The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so concealed either,

They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
They are imbued through all things, conveying them-
selves willingly,

Conveying a sentiment and invitation of the earth-
I utter and utter,

I speak not, yet if you hear me not, of what avail am
I to you?

To bear to better-lacking these, of what avail am I?

10. Accouche! Accouchez !

Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
Will you squat and stifle there?

11. The earth does not argue,

Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,

Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable fail-

ures,

Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,

Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.

12. The earth does not exhibit itself, nor refuse to exhibit itself-possesses still underneath,

Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,

Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers, Underneath these, possessing the words that never fail.

13. To her children, the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,

The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection does not fail,

Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.

14. Of the interminable sisters,

Of the ceaseless cotillions of sisters,

Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,

The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.

15. With her ample back toward every beholder,

With the fascinations of youth, and the equal fascinations of age,

Sits she whom I too love like the rest-sits undisturbed,

Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her eyes glance back from it, Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none, Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.

16. Seen at hand, or seen at a distance,

Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day, Duly approach and pass with their companions, or a companion,

Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances of those who are with them, From the countenances of children or women, or the manly countenance,

From the open countenances of animals, or from inanimate things,

From the landscape of waters, or from the exquisite apparition of the sky,

From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,

Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.

17. Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun, Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.

18. Tumbling on steadily, nothing dreading, Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,

The Soul's realization and determination still inheriting,

The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,

No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,

Swift, glad, content, unbereaved, nothing losing,

Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,

The divine ship sails the divine sea.

19. Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you,

The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

20. Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,

You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang

in the sky,

For none more than you are the present and the past,
For none more than you is immortality.

21. Each man to himself, and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the word

of immortality,

No one can acquire for another — not one!
Not one can grow for another - not one!

22. The song is to the singer, and comes back most

to him,

The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,