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20   What will be, will be well — for what is, is well,
To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall      be well.
21   The sky continues beautiful,
The pleasure of men with women shall never be sated,      nor the pleasure of women with men, nor the      pleasure from poems,
The domestic joys, the daily housework or business,      the building of houses — these are not phan-     tasms — they have weight, form, location;
Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government,      are none of them phantasms,
The difference between sin and goodness is no de-     lusion,
The earth is not an echo — man and his life, and all the      things of his life, are well-consider'd.
22  You are not thrown to the winds — you gather cer-     tainly and safely around yourself;
Yourself ! Yourself ! Yourself, forever and ever !