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Mediums.

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MEDIUMS.

THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness, They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,   [ begin page 365 ]ppp.01663.371.jpg 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, waters, shall be convey'd, Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.

Part of the cluster FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.

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