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Rh I, exultant, to be ready for them, will now shake out
 * carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet
 * been heard upon the earth.

I will make the songs of passions, to give
 * them their way.

And your songs, offenders—for I scan you with
 * kindred eyes, and carry you with me the same
 * as any.

I will make the true poem of riches, Namely, to earn for the body and the mind, what
 * adheres, and goes forward, and is not dropt by
 * death.

I will effuse egotism, and show it underlying all—
 * and I will be the bard of Personality;

And I will show of male and female that either is but
 * the equal of the other.

And I will show that there is no imperfection in male
 * or female, or in the earth, or in the present—
 * and can be none in the future.

And I will show that whatever happens to anybody, it
 * may be turned to beautiful results—And I will
 * show that nothing can happen more beautiful
 * than death;

And I will thread a thread through my poems that no
 * one thing in the universe is inferior to another thing.

And that all the things of the universe are perfect
 * miracles, each as profound as any.