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spirit to yours, dear brother, Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do
 * not understand you,

I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
 * (there are others also;)

I specify you with joy, my comrade, to salute you,
 * and to salute those who are with you, before and
 * since—and those to come also,

That we all labor together, transmitting the same
 * charge and succession;

We few, equals, indifferent of lands, indifferent of
 * times,

We, enclosers of all continents, all castes—allowers
 * of all theologies,

Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but
 * reject not the disputers, nor any thing that is
 * asserted,

We hear the bawling and din—we are reached at
 * by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every
 * side,

They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us,
 * my comrade,

Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over,
 * journeying up and down, till we make our
 * ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,

Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and
 * women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren
 * and lovers, as we are.

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