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Allons! the inducements shall be greater;We will sail pathless and wild seas;
We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
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Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements!Health, defiance, gayety, self-esteem, curiosity;
Allons! from all formules!
From your formules, O bat-eyed and materialistic priests!
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The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer.36
Allons! yet take warning!He traveling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance;
None may come to the trial, till he or she bring courage and health.
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Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself;Only those may come, who come in sweet and determin'd bodies;
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I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes;We convince by our presence.
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