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BROAD-AXE, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one and
 * lip only one!

Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve produced
 * from a little seed sown!

Resting the grass amid and upon, To be leaned, and to lean on.

Strong shapes, and attributes of strong shapes—
 * masculine trades, sights and sounds,

Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music, Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the
 * keys of the great organ.

Welcome are all earth's lands, each for its kind, Welcome are lands of pine and oak, Welcome are lands of the lemon and fig, Welcome are lands of gold, Welcome are lands of wheat and maize—welcome
 * those of the grape,

Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the
 * white potato and sweet potato,

Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies, (126)