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Rh Whom they take, they take into space, to behold the
 * birth of stars, to learn one of the meanings,

To launch off with absolute faith—to sweep through
 * the ceaseless rings, and never be quiet again.



no assurances—I am a man who is preoccupied,
 * of his own Soul;

I do not doubt that whatever I know at a given time,
 * there waits for me more, which I do not know;

I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside
 * the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now
 * looking faces I am not cognizant of—calm and
 * actual faces;

I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the
 * world are latent in any iota of the world;

I do not doubt there are realizations I have no idea of,
 * waiting for me through time, and through the
 * universes—also upon this earth;

I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes
 * are limitless—in vain I try to think how
 * limitless;

I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs,
 * play their swift sports through the air on purpose
 * —and that I shall one day be eligible to do as
 * much as they, and more than they;

I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
 * vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected
 * refuse, than I have supposed; Rh