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Rh Of future men and women there—of happiness in
 * those high plateaus, ranging three thousand
 * miles, warm and cold,

Of cities yet unsurveyed and unsuspected, (as I am
 * also, and as it must be,)

Of the new and good names—of the strong developments
 * —of the inalienable homesteads,

Of a free original life there—of simple diet, and
 * clean and sweet blood,

Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect
 * physique there,

Of immense spiritual results, future years, inland,
 * spread there each side of the Anahuacs,

Of these Leaves well-understood there, (being made
 * for that area,)

Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there, (O it lurks in me night and day—What is gain,
 * after all, to savageness and freedom?)



oratists—to male or female, Vocalism, breath, measure, concentration, determination,
 * and the divine power to use words.

Are you eligible? Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial?
 * from vigorous practice? from physique?