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Rh Behold! the body includes and is the meaning, the
 * main concern—and includes and is the Soul;

Whoever you are! how superb and how divine is your
 * body, or any part of it.

Whoever you are! to you endless announcements.

Daughter of the lands, did you wait for your poet? Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and
 * indicative hand?

Toward the male of The States, and toward the
 * female of The States,

Toward the President, the Congress, the diverse Governors,
 * the new Judiciary,

Live words—words to the lands.

O the lands! Lands scorning invaders! Interlinked, food-yielding
 * lands!

Land of coal and iron! Land of gold! Lands of
 * cotton, sugar, rice!

Odorous and sunny land! Floridian land! Land of the spinal river, the Mississippi! Land of
 * the AlleghaniesAlleghenies [sic]! Ohio's land!

Land of wheat, beef, pork! Land of wool and hemp!
 * Land of the potato, the apple, and the grape!

Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the
 * world! Land of those sweet-aired interminable
 * plateaus! Land there of the herd, the garden,
 * the healthy house of adobie! Land there of rapt
 * thought, and of the realization of the stars!
 * Land of simple, holy, untamed lives! Rh