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The shapes arise! The shape measur’d, saw’d, jack’d, join’d, stain’d, The coffin-shape for the dead to lie within in his shroud, The shape got out in posts, in the bedstead posts, in the posts of the bride’s bed, The shape of the little trough, the shape of the rockers beneath, the shape of the babe’s cradle, The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for dancers’ feet, The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children, The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well-married young man and woman, The roof over the supper joyously cook’d by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day’s work.