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326 To take your own lovers on the road with you, for all
 * that you leave them behind you,

To know the universe itself as a road—as many
 * roads—as roads for travelling Souls.

The Soul travels, The body does not travel as much as the Soul, The body has just as great a work as the Soul, and
 * parts away at last for the journeys of the Soul.

All parts away for the progress of Souls, All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all
 * that was or is apparent upon this globe or any
 * globe, falls into niches and corners before the
 * procession of Souls along the grand roads of the
 * universe.

Of the progress of the Souls of men and women along
 * the grand roads of the universe, all other progress
 * is the needed emblem and sustenance.

Forever alive, forever forward, Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent,
 * feeble, dissatisfied,

Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected
 * by men,

They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know
 * not where they go,

But I know that they go toward the best—toward
 * something great.

Allons! Whoever you are! come forth! You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the
 * house, though you built it, or though it has been
 * built for you.