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31   I shall go with the rest — we have satisfaction,
I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so      much, nor the law of us changed,
I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be      under the present and past law,
And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under      the present and past law,
For I have dream'd that the law they are under now      is enough.
32  And I have dream'd that the satisfaction is not so      much changed, and that there is no life with-     out satisfaction:
What is the earth? what are Body and Soul, without      satisfaction?
33  I shall go with the rest,
We cannot be stopt at a given point — that is no satis-     faction,
To show us a good thing, or a few good things, for a      space of time — that is no satisfaction,
We must have the indestructible breed of the best,      regardless of time.
34  If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of      dung,
If maggots and rats ended us, then alarum! for we are      betray'd!
Then indeed suspicion of death.
35  Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death,      I should die now,
Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited      toward annihilation?