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Thoughts.

Part of the cluster FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.

THOUGHTS.

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 intui- 
 tions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Per- 
 sonality;
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.

Part of the cluster FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.

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