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Accouche! Accouchez!
Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
Will you squat and stifle there?

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The earth does not argue,

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Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,
Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,
Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,
Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.