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122 Philip gazing on the Sacred Band of Thebans after the fight at Chæronea.

I dream'd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dream'd that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words."

And again:

I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exalté, previously unknown, Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men."

And once again:—

Come, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon; I will make divine magnetic lands,I will plant companionship thick as trees all along the shores of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies; I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about each other's necks;For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme! For you, for you I am thrilling these songs."

In the company of Walt Whitman we are very far away from Gibbon and Carlier, from Tardieux and