Mediums
THEY shall arise in the States,
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They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness;
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They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos;
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They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive;
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They shall be complete women and men—their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear;
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They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products—they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city;
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They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses;
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Strong and sweet shall their tongues be—poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives—they shall be makers and finders;
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Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels;
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Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey’d in gospels
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—Trees, animals, waters, shall be convey’d,
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Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey’d.
Walt Whitman
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