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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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MEDIUMS.
| THEY shall arise in the States, |
| They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness, |
| They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos, |
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| They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive, |
They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and
supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
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They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they
shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of
Chicago the great city,
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They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and
oratresses,
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Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of
poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers
and finders,
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Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to
convey gospels,
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Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels,
trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,
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| Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd. |
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