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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,

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Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole      earth,
Shapes bracing the earth, and braced with the whole      earth.