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First Line: Of public opinion
Last Line: Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.


Of public opinion,
Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive!
how certain and final!)
Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself,
What will the people say at last?
Of the frivolous Judge -- of the corrupt Congressman,
Governor, Mayor -- of such as these standing helpless
and exposed,
Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,)
Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the
dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of
the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem
and Personality;
Of the true New World -- of the Democracies resplendent en-masse,
Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,
Of the shining sun by them -- of the inherent light,
greater than the rest,
Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.





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