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Rh They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,

They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,

They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,

They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,

Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,

Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,

Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, w^aters, shall be convey'd,

Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd. 







of the murk of heaviest clouds,

Out of the feudal wrecks and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,

Out of that old entire European debris, the shatter'd mummeries,

Ruin'd cathedrals, crumble of palaces, tombs of priests,

Lo, Freedom's features fresh undimm'd look forth—the same immortal face looks forth;

(A glimpse as of thy Mother's face Columbia,

A flash significant as of a sword,

Beaming towards thee.)

