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Strong thoughts fill you, and confidence—you smile!
You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
You do not see the medicines—you do not mind the
weeping friends—I am with you,

I exclude others from you—there is nothing to be commiserated,

I do not commiserate—I congratulate you.

UNNAMED LANDS.

1.

NATIONS, ten thousand years before these States,

and many times ten thousand years before these

States;

Garnered clusters of ages, that men and women like us grew up and travelled their course, and passed on; What vast-built cities what orderly republics—what pastoral tribes and nomads;

What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others;

What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions;

What sort of marriage—what costumes—what physiology and phrenology,

What of liberty and slavery among them—what they thought of death and the soul;

Who were witty and wise—who beautiful and poetic— who brutish and undeveloped;

Not a mark, not a record remains—And yet all remains.

2.

O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing;

I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it, and as all will henceforth belong to it.

Afar they stand—yet near to me they stand,

Some with oval countenances, learned and calm,

Some naked and savage—Some like huge collections of

insects,

Some in tents—herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen, Some prowling through woods—Some living peaceably on farms, labouring, reaping, filling barns,

Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.

Are those billions of men really gone?

Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?

Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?

Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?

3.

I believe, of all those billions of men and women that filled the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour, here or elsewhere, invisible to us, in exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinned, in life.

I believe that was not the end of those nations, or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;

Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets, I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world—counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world;

I suspect I shall meet them there,

I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands.

SIMILITUDE.

I.

N the beach at night alone,

ON As the old Mother sways her to and fro, singing

her savage and husky song,

As I watch the bright stars shining—I think a thought of

the clef of the universes, and of the future.

2.

A vast similitude interlocks all,

All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, comets, asteroids,

All the substances of the same, and all that is spiritual upon the same,

All distances of place, however wide,

All distances of time—all inanimate forms,

All Souls—all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,

All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes—the fishes, the brutes,

All men and women—me also;

All nations, colours, barbarisms, civilizations, languages; All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this globe,

or any globe;

All lives and deaths—all of the past, present, future;

This vast similitude spans them, and always has spanned, and shall forever span them, and compactly hold

them.

THE SQUARE DEIFIC.

God.

HANTING the Square Deific, out of the One

CHAN

advancing, out of the sides;

Out of the old and new—out of the square entirely divine, Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed)... from this side Jehovah am I,

Old Brahm I, and I Saturnius am;

Not Time affects me—I am Time, modern as any;

Unpersuadable, relentless, executing righteous judgments; As the Earth, the Father, the brown old Kronos, with laws, Aged beyond computation—yet ever new—ever with those mighty laws rolling,

Relentless, I forgive no man—whoever sins, dies—I will have that man's life;

Therefore let none expect mercy—Have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy?—No more

have I;

But as the seasons, and gravitation—and as all the appointed days, that forgive not,

I dispense from this side judgments inexorable, without

the least remorse.

Saviour.

Consolator most mild, the promised one advancing,

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