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Rh Day, full-blown and splendid—Day of the immense
 * sun, action, ambition, laughter,

The Night follows close, with millions of suns, and
 * sleep, and restoring darkness.

Wealth with the flush hand, fine clothes, hospitality, But then the Soul's wealth, which is candor, knowledge,
 * pride, enfolding love;

(Who goes for men and women showing Poverty
 * richer than wealth?)

Expression of speech! in what is written or said, forget
 * not that Silence is also expressive,

That anguish as hot as the hottest, and contempt as
 * cold as the coldest, may be without words,

That the true adoration is likewise without words,
 * and without kneeling.

Great is the greatest Nation—the nation of clusters
 * of equal nations.

Great is the Earth, and the way it became what it is; Do you imagine it is stopped at this? the increase
 * abandoned?

Understand then that it goes as far onward from
 * this, as this is from the times when it lay in
 * covering waters and gases, before man had appeared.

Great is the quality of Truth in man, The quality of truth in man supports itself through
 * all changes,