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This condensation of the universe, (nay here the only universe, Here the idea, all in this mystic handful wrapt;)

These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,

To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these

to emanate,

Το you whoe'er you are a look.

A traveler of thoughts and years, of peace and war,

Of youth long sped and middle age declining,

(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the

second,

Songs, ventures, speculations, presently to close,)

Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,

As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd

window,

Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,

To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine, Then travel travel on.

Vocalism.

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VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;

Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique ?

Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?

Come duly to the divine power to speak words?

For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, pro

creation, prudence, and nakedness,

After treading ground and breasting river and lake,

After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races,

after knowledge, freedom, crimes,

After complete faith, after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,

After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a

woman, the divine power to speak words;

Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all-none refuse, all attend,

Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,

They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman.

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O what is it in me that makes me tremble so at voices?

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I

shall follow,

As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.

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Where is the practis'd and perfect organ? where is the develop'd

For see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.

I see brains and lips closed, tympans and temples unstruck,
Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies
slumbering forever ready in all words.

To bim That Was Crucified.

My spirit to yours dear brother,

Do not mind because many sounding your name do not under

stand you,

I do not sound your name, but I understand you,

I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,

That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and suc

cession,

We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,

We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies, Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,

We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,

We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions,

jealousies, recriminations on every side,

They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,

Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.

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