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86 I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on
 * their backs,

And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed
 * help.

I heard what was said of the universe, Heard it and heard it of several thousand years; It is middling well as far as it goes,—But is that all?

Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters, The most they offer for mankind and eternity less
 * than a spirt of my own seminal wet,

Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules
 * his grandson,

Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha, In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf,
 * the crucifix engraved,

With Odin, and the hideous-faced Mexitli, and every
 * idol and image,

Taking them all for what they are worth, and not a
 * cent more,

Admitting they were alive and did the work of their
 * day,

Admitting they bore mites, as for unfledged birds,
 * who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,

Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better
 * in myself—bestowing them freely on each man
 * and woman I see,

Discovering as much, or more, in a framer framing a
 * house,