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Rh It comes from its embowered garden, and looks
 * pleasantly on itself, and encloses the world,

Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and
 * perfect and clean the womb cohering.

The head well-grown, proportioned and plumb, and
 * the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb.

The Soul is always beautiful, The universe is duly in order, everything is in its
 * place,

What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is
 * in its place;

The twisted skull waits, the watery or rotten blood
 * waits,

The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and
 * the child of the drunkard waits long, and the
 * drunkard himself waits long.

The sleepers that lived and died wait—the far
 * advanced are to go on in their turns, and the
 * far behind are to go on in their turns,

The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall
 * flow and unite—they unite now.

The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed. They flow hand in hand over the whole earth, from
 * east to west, as they lie unclothed,

The Asiatic and African are hand in hand—the
 * European and American are hand in hand,

Learned and unlearned are hand in hand, and male
 * and female are hand in hand.

The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of
 * her lover—they press close without lust—his
 * lips press her neck,