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two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going—North and South
 * excursions making,

Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutching, Armed and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, loving, No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldiering,
 * thieving, threatening,

Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing,
 * water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach
 * dancing,

With birds singing—With fishes swimming—With
 * trees branching and leafing,

Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking,
 * feebleness chasing,

Fulfilling our foray.



! O dying—always dying! O the burials of me, past and present! O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious
 * as ever!