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28   Slow moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the      earth,
Northerner goes carried, and Southerner goes carried,      and they on the Atlantic side, and they on      the Pacific, and they between, and all through      the Mississippi country, and all over the earth.
29  The great masters and kosmos are well as they go       — the heroes and good-doers are well,
The known leaders and inventors, and the rich own-     ers and pious and distinguish'd, may be well,
But there is more account than that — there is strict      account of all.
30  The interminable hordes of the ignorant and      wicked are not nothing,
The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
The common people of Europe are not nothing —      the American aborigines are not nothing,
The infected in the immigrant hospital are not noth-     ing — the murderer or mean person is not      nothing,
The perpetual successions of shallow people are not      nothing as they go,
The lowest prostitute is not nothing — the mocker of      religion is not nothing as he goes.