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Rh I shall go with the rest, We cannot be stopped at a given point—that is no
 * satisfaction,

To show us a good thing, or a few good things, for a
 * space of time—that is no satisfaction,

We must have the indestructible breed of the best,
 * regardless of time.

If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of
 * dung,

If maggots and rats ended us, then alarm! for we are
 * betrayed!

Then indeed suspicion of death.

Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death, I
 * should die now,

Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited
 * toward annihilation?

Pleasantly and well-suited I walk, Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good, The whole universe indicates that it is good, The past and the present indicate that it is good.

How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How
 * perfect is my Soul!

How perfect the earth, and the minutest tiling upon
 * it!

What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad
 * is just as perfect,

The vegetables and minerals are all perfect, and the
 * imponderable fluids are perfect;

Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and
 * slowly and surely they yet pass on.