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MEDIUMS.
THEY shall arise in the States;
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happi- ness;
They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos;
They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive;
They shall be complete women and men — their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear;
They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products — they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city;
They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses;
Strong and sweet shall their tongues be — poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives — they shall be makers and finders;
Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels;
Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd
in gospels
— Trees, animals, waters, shall be
convey'd,
Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be con- vey'd.
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happi- ness;
They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos;
They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive;
They shall be complete women and men — their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear;
They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products — they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city;
They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses;
Strong and sweet shall their tongues be — poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives — they shall be makers and finders;
Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels;
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Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be con- vey'd.
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