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You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe that much unseen is also here.

Here the profound lesson of reception, nor preference nor denial,

  • The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas’d, the illiterate person, are not denied;
  • The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar’s tramp, the drunkard’s stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
  • The escaped youth, the rich person’s carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
  • The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,

They pass, I also pass, anything passes, none can be interdicted,

None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.

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