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KOSMOS.

WHO includes diversity, and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness      and sexuality of the earth, and the great char-     ity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look'd forth from the windows, the eyes,      for nothing, or whose brain held audience with      messengers for nothing;

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Who contains believers and disbelievers — Who is the      most majestic lover;
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of real-     ism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic, or in-     tellectual,
Who, having consider'd the Body, finds all its organs      and parts good;
Who, out of the theory of the earth, and of his or      her body, understands by subtle analogies all      other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large poli-     tics of These States;
Who believes not only in our globe, with its sun and      moon, but in other globes, with their suns and      moons;
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not      for a day, but for all time, sees races, eras, dates,      generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, insep-     arable together.