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256 All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia,
 * indifferent of place!

All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes
 * of the sea!

And you of centuries hence, when you listen to me! And you, each and everywhere, whom I specify not,
 * but include just the same!

Health to you! Good will to you all—from me and
 * America sent,

For we acknowledge you all and each.

Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her
 * right upon the earth,

Each of us allowed the eternal purport of the earth, Each of us here as divinely as any is here.

You Hottentot with clicking palate! You woolly-haired hordes! you white or black owners
 * of slaves!

You owned persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops! You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive
 * countenances of brutes!

You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look
 * down upon, for all your glimmering language
 * and spirituality!

You low expiring aborigines of the hills of Utah,
 * Oregon, California!

You dwarfed Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp! You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive
 * lip, grovelling, seeking your food!

You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese!