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32 The main shapes arise!
Shapes of Democracy, total — result of centuries;
Shapes, ever projecting other shapes;
Shapes of a hundred Free States, begetting another hundred;
Shapes of turbulent manly cities;
Shapes of the women fit for These States,
Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole
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Shapes bracing the earth, and braced with the whole earth.
Shapes of Democracy, total — result of centuries;
Shapes, ever projecting other shapes;
Shapes of a hundred Free States, begetting another hundred;
Shapes of turbulent manly cities;
Shapes of the women fit for These States,
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Shapes bracing the earth, and braced with the whole earth.
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