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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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THOUGHTS.
Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how
certain and final!)
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Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What
will the people say at last?
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Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor,
Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
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Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,) |
Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta
of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
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Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intui-
tions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Per-
sonality;
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Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-
masse,
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Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them, |
Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than
the rest,
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Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from
them.
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