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184 Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they? Remembering inland America, the high plateaus,
 * stretching long?

Remembering Kanada—Remembering what edges
 * the vast round edge of the Mexican Sea?

Come duly to the divine power to use words?

For only at last, after many years—after chastity, ::friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river and lake, After a loosened throat—after absorbing eras, temperaments,
 * races—after knowledge, freedom,
 * crimes,

After complete faith—after clarifyings, elevations,
 * and removing obstructions,

After these, and more, it is just possible there comes
 * to a man, a woman, the divine power to use
 * words.

Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten
 * all—None refuse, all attend,

Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paintings,
 * machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain,
 * theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,

They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently
 * through the mouth of that man, or that woman.

O now I see arise orators fit for inland America, And I see it is as slow to become an orator as to
 * become a man,

And I see that power is folded in a great vocalism.

Of a great vocalism, when you hear it, the merciless
 * light shall pour, and the storm rage around,