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Rh O to escape utterly from others' anchors and holds! To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and
 * dangerous!

To court destruction with taunts—with invitations! To ascend—to leap to the heavens of the love
 * indicated to me!

To rise thither with my inebriate Soul! To be lost, if it must be so! To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness
 * and freedom!

With one brief hour of madness and joy.



and I—what the earth is, we are, We two—how long we were fooled! Now delicious, transmuted, swiftly we escape, as
 * Nature escapes,

We are Nature—long have we been absent, but now
 * we return,

We become plants, leaves, foliage, roots, bark, We are bedded in the ground—we are rocks, We are oaks—we grow in the openings side by side, We browse—we are two among the wild herds,
 * spontaneous as any,

We are two fishes swimming in the sea together, We are what the locust blossoms are—we drop scent
 * around the lanes, mornings and evenings,

We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables,
 * minerals,