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Rh I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires
 * that were threatening to consume me,

I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering
 * fires,

I will give them complete abandonment, I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and
 * of love,

(For who but I should understand love, with all its
 * sorrow and joy?

And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)

I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people en-masse in their own
 * spirit,

Here is what sings unrestricted faith.

Omnes! Omnes! Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that
 * part also,

I am myself just as much evil as good—And I say
 * there is in fact no evil,

Or if there is, I say it is just as important to you, to
 * the earth, or to me, as anything else.

I too, following many, and followed by many, inaugurate
 * a Religion—I too go to the wars,

It may be I am destined to utter the loudest cries
 * thereof, the conqueror's shouts,

They may rise from me yet, and soar above every
 * thing.

Each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth, and all the stars in the sky, are
 * for Religion's sake.