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394  These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature,
 * throes of apparent dissolution—you are he or
 * she who is master or mistress over them,

Master or mistress in your own right over Nature,
 * elements, pain, passion, dissolution.

The hopples fall from your ankles—you find an unfailing
 * sufficiency,

Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by
 * the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,

Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided,
 * nothing is scanted,

Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui,
 * what you are picks its way.



! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs; That is nothing, that is quelled by one or two failures,
 * or any number of failures,

Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people,
 * or by any unfaithfulness,

Or the show of the tushes of power—soldiers, cannon,
 * penal statutes.

What we believe in waits latent forever through
 * Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America,
 * Australia, Cuba, and all the islands and archipelagoes
 * of the sea.