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Rh Stands removed, spacious, composite sound, Sees itself promulger of men and women, initiates
 * the true use of precedents,

Does not repel them or the past, or what they have
 * produced under their forms, or amid other politics,
 * or amid the idea of castes, or the old
 * religions,

Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse
 * slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms
 * of the house,

Perceives that it waits a little while in the door—
 * that it was fittest for its days,

That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped
 * heir who approaches,

And that he shall be fittest for his days.

Any period, one nation must lead, One land must be the promise and reliance of the
 * future.

These States are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of
 * nations,

Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast
 * doings of the day and night,

Here is what moves in magnificent masses, carelessly
 * faithful of particulars,

Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness,
 * the Soul loves,

Here the flowing trains—here the crowds, equality,
 * diversity, the Soul loves.

Race of races, and bards to corroborate!