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Rh Of the builders and steerers of ships, and the wielders
 * of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,

I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.

What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast
 * returns,

Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that
 * will take me,

Not asking the sky to come down to my good will, Scattering it freely forever.

The pure contralto sings in the organ loft, The carpenter dresses his plank—the tongue of his
 * foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

The married and unmarried children ride home to
 * their Thanksgiving dinner,

The pilot seizes the king-pin—he heaves down with
 * a strong arm,

The mate stands braced in the whale-boat—lance
 * and harpoon are ready,

The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious
 * stretches,

The deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the
 * altar,

The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum
 * of the big wheel,

The farmer stops by the bars, as he walks on a First
 * Day loafe, and looks at the oats and rye,

The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum, a confirmed
 * case,

He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in
 * his mother's bedroom;