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Rh All men and women—me also, All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages, All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this
 * globe or any globe,

All lives and deaths—all of past, present, future, This vast similitude spans them, and always has
 * spanned, and shall forever span them, and
 * compactly hold them.



sprig! Confession sprig! In the bouquet I give you place also—I bind you in, Proceeding no further till, humbled publicly, I give fair warning, once for all.

I own that I have been sly, thievish, mean, a prevaricator,
 * greedy, derelict,

And I own that I remain so yet.

What foul thought but I think it—or have in me the
 * stuff out of which it is thought?

What in darkness in bed at night, alone or with a
 * companion?

You felons on trials in courts, You convicts in prison cells—you sentenced assassins,
 * chained and handcuffed with iron,