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they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing
 * at intervals,)

How dear and dreadful they are to the earth, How they inure to themselves as much as to any—
 * What a paradox appears, their age,

How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentless in their fate, all
 * times,

How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation
 * and reward,

And how the same inexorable price must still be paid
 * for the same great purchase.



submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure,
 * unapproachable to analysis, in the Soul;

Not traditions—not the outer authorities are the
 * judges— hey are the judges of outer authorities,
 * and of all traditions,

They corroborate as they go, only whatever corroborates
 * themselves, and touches themselves,

For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate
 * far and near, without one exception.