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Rh And who possesses a perfect and enamoured body?
 * For I do not believe any one possesses a more
 * perfect or enamoured body than mine;

And who thinks the amplest thoughts? For I will
 * surround those thoughts;

And who has made hymns fit for the earth? For I
 * am mad with devouring extacy to make joyous
 * hymns for the whole earth!



shall arise in the States—mediums shall, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and
 * happiness,

They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos, They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive, They shall be complete women and men—their pose
 * brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood
 * clean and clear,

They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products
 * —they shall enjoy the sight of the beef,
 * lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city,

They shall train themselves to go in public to become
 * oratists, (orators and oratresses,)

Strong and sweet shall their tongues be—poems and
 * materials of poems shall come from their lives—
 * they shall be makers and finders,

Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine
 * conveyers, to convey gospels,