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, round, rolling, compact—suns, moons,
 * animals—all these are words to be said,

Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances—beings,
 * premonitions, lispings of the future,

Behold! these are vast words to be said.

Were you thinking that those were the words—those
 * upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?

No, those are not the words—the substantial words
 * are in the ground and sea,

They are in the air—they are in you.

Were you thinking that those were the words—those
 * delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?

No, the real words are more delicious than they.

4. Human bodies are words, myriads of words, In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or
 * woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,

Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or
 * the need of shame. Rh