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Public Opinion, Of a calm and cool fiat, sooner or later, (How impassive!
 * How certain and final!)

Of the President with pale face asking secretly to
 * himself, What will the people say at last?

Of the frivolous Judge—Of the corrupt Congressman,
 * Governor, Mayor—Of such as these, standing
 * helpless and exposed;

Of the mumbling and screaming priest—(soon, soon
 * deserted;)

Of the lessening, year by year, of venerableness, and
 * of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,

Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader,
 * of the intuitions of men and women, and of self-esteem,
 * and of personality;

Of the New World—Of the Democracies, resplendent,
 * en-masse,

Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them
 * and to me,

Of the shining sun by them—Of the inherent light,
 * greater than the rest,

Of the envelopment of all by them, and of the effusion
 * of all from them.

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