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124 Natural and artificial are you and me, Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you
 * and me,

Failures, successes, births, deaths, are you and me, Past, present, future, are only you and me.

I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself, Not any part of America, good or bad, Not my body—not friendship, hospitality, procreation, Not my Soul, nor the last explanation of prudence, Not the similitude that interlocks me with all identities
 * that exist, or ever have existed,

Not faith, sin, defiance, nor any disposition or duty
 * of myself,

Not the promulgation of Liberty—not to cheer up
 * slaves and horrify despots,

Not to build for that which builds for mankind, Not to balance ranks, complexions, creeds, and the
 * sexes,

Not to justify science, nor the march of equality, Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn beloved
 * of time.

I swear I am for those that have never been
 * mastered!

For men and women whose tempers have never been
 * mastered,

For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never
 * master.

I swear I am for those who walk abreast with the
 * whole earth!

Who inaugurate one to inaugurate all.