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1.1. A Song for Occupations
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A song for occupations!
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In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find
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the developments,
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And find the eternal meanings.
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Workmen and Workwomen!
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Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of
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me, what would it amount to?
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Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman,
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what would it amount to?
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Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
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The learn'd, virtuous, benevolent, and the usual terms,
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A man like me and never the usual terms.
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Neither a servant nor a master I,
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I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my
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own whoever enjoys me,
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I will be even with you and you shall be even with me.
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If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the
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same shop,
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If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as
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good as your brother or dearest friend,
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If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be
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personally as welcome,
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If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
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If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I
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cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
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If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
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If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why
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I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
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Why what have you thought of yourself?
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Is it you then that thought yourself less?
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Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
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Or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
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(Because you are greasy or pimpled, or were once drunk, or a thief,
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Or that you are diseas'd, or rheumatic, or a prostitute,
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Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never
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saw your name in print,
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Do you give in that you are any less immortal?)
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Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard,
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untouchable and untouching,
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It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether
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you are alive or no,
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I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
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Grown, half-grown and babe, of this country and every country,
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in-doors and out-doors, one just as much as the other, I see,
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And all else behind or through them.
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The wife, and she is not one jot less than the husband,
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The daughter, and she is just as good as the son,
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The mother, and she is every bit as much as the father.
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Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,
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Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms,
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Sailor-men, merchant-men, coasters, immigrants,
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All these I see, but nigher and farther the same I see,
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None shall escape me and none shall wish to escape me.
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I bring what you much need yet always have,
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Not money, amours, dress, eating, erudition, but as good,
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I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but
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offer the value itself.
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There is something that comes to one now and perpetually,
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It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion
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and print,
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It is not to be put in a book, it is not in this book,
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It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your
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hearing and sight are from you,
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It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.
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You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it,
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You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
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Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury
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department, or in the daily papers or weekly papers,
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Or in the census or revenue returns, prices current, or any accounts
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of stock.
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The sun and stars that float in the open air,
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The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is
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something grand,
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I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
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And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or
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bon-mot or reconnoissance,
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And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us,
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and without luck must be a failure for us,
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And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
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The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the
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greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
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The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
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The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders
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that fill each minute of time forever,
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What have you reckon'd them for, camerado?
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Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the
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profits of your store?
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Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure,
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or a lady's leisure?
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Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it
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might be painted in a picture?
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Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
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Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations
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and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
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Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
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Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
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Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or
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agriculture itself?
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Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and
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the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
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Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
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I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and
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man I rate beyond all rate.
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We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,
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I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
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I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
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Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
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We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
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I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
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It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life,
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Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth,
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than they are shed out of you.
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The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are,
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The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who
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are here for him,
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The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,
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The Congress convenes every Twelfth-month for you,
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Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the
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going and coming of commerce and malls, are all for you.
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List close my scholars dear,
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Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you,
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Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
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The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records
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reach is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
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If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
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The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would
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be vacuums.
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All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,
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(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of
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the arches and cornices?)
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All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
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It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the
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beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his
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sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the
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women's chorus,
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It is nearer and farther than they.
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Will the whole come back then?
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Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is
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there nothing greater or more?
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Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
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Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
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Objects gross and the unseen soul are one.
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House-building, measuring, sawing the boards,
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Blacksmithing, glass-blowing, nail-making, coopering, tin-roofing,
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shingle-dressing,
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Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,
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The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln and brickkiln,
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Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness,
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echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts
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looking through smutch'd faces,
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Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men
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around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the
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due combining of ore, limestone, coal,
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The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the
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bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars
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of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped Trail for railroads,
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Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house,
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steam-saws, the great mills and factories,
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Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for facades or window or door-lintels,
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the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,
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The calking-iron, the kettle of boiling vault-cement, and the fire
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under the kettle,
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The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the
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sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the
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butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,
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The work and tools of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker,
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Goods of gutta-percha, papier-mache, colors, brushes, brush-making,
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glazier's implements,
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The veneer and glue-pot, the confectioner's ornaments, the decanter
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and glasses, the shears and flat-iron,
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The awl and knee-strap, the pint measure and quart measure, the
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counter and stool, the writing-pen of quill or metal, the making
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of all sorts of edged tools,
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The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done
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by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,
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Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting,
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distilling, sign-painting, lime-burning, cotton-picking,
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electroplating, electrotyping, stereotyping,
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Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines,
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ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam wagons,
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The cart of the carman, the omnibus, the ponderous dray,
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Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;
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Beef on the butcher's stall, the slaughter-house of the butcher, the
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butcher in his killing-clothes,
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The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the
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scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul,
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and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,
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Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and
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the half and quarter barrels, the loaded barges, the high piles
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on wharves and levees,
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The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters,
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fish-boats, canals;
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The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard,
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store, or factory,
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These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you
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are, your daily life!
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In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more
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than you estimated, (and far less also,)
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In them realities for you and me, in them poems for you and me,
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In them, not yourself-you and your soul enclose all things,
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regardless of estimation,
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In them the development good—in them all themes, hints, possibilities.
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I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise
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I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
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But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
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Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
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In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
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In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
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Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for
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another hour but this hour,
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Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother,
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nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
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The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
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You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine
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and strong life,
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And all else giving place to men and women like you.
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When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
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When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
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When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved
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the supporting desk,
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When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they
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touch my body back again,
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When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child
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convince,
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When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
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When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly
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companions,
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I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do
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