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Enough! enough! enough!

Somehow I have been stunn’d.

Stand back!

Give me a little time beyond my cuff’d head, slumbers, dreams, gaping, I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

That I could forget the mockers and insults!

That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!

That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning!

I remember now, I resume the overstaid fraction,

The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,

Corpses rise, gashes heal, fastenings roll from me.

I troop forth replenish’d with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,

  • Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
  • Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth,
  • The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.

Eleves, I salute you! come forward!

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