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245   Enough! enough! enough!
Somehow I have been stunn'd. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers,      dreams, gaping;
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
246  That I could forget the mockers and insults!
That I could forget the trickling tears, and the blows      of the bludgeons and hammers!
That I could look with a separate look on my own      crucifixion and bloody crowning.
247  I remember now;
I resume the overstaid fraction;
The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided      to it, or to any graves;
Corpses rise, gashes heal, fastenings roll from me.
248  I troop forth replenish't with supreme power, one of      an average unending procession;
Inland and sea-coast we go, and we pass all boundary      lines;

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Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole      earth;
The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thous-     ands of years.
249  Eleves, I salute you! come forward!
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