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156 The area of pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the
 * hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's
 * cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous
 * winter-work of pork-packing,

Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice—
 * the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the
 * loaded barges, the high piles on wharves and
 * levees,

Bread and cakes in the bakery, the milliner's ribbons,
 * the dress-maker's patterns, the tea-table,
 * the home-made sweetmeats;

Cheap literature, maps, charts, lithographs, daily and
 * weekly newspapers,

The column of wants in the one-cent paper, the news
 * by telegraph, amusements, operas, shows,

The business parts of a city, the trottoirs of a city
 * when thousands of well-dressed people walk up
 * and down,

The cotton, woollen, linen you wear, the money you
 * make and spend,

Your room and bed-room, your piano-forte, the stove
 * and cook-pans,

The house you live in, the rent, the other tenants, the
 * deposit in the savings-bank, the trade at the
 * grocery,

The pay on Seventh Day night, the going home, and
 * the purchases;

In them the heft of the heaviest—in them far more
 * than you estimated, and far less also,

In them realities for you and me—in them poems for
 * you and me,

In them, not yourself—you and your Soul enclose all
 * things, regardless of estimation,