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Rh :It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseased corpses,
 * It distils such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
 * It renews, with such unwitting looks, its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
 * It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.



1. day I have walked the city, and talked with my friends, and thought of prudence,
 * Of time, space, reality—of such as these, and abreast with them, prudence.

2. After all, the last explanation remains to be made about prudence,
 * Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.

3. The Soul is of itself,
 * All verges to it—all has reference to what ensues,
 * All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence,
 * Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct life-time, or the hour of death, but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect life-time.