All men and women—me also,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this
globe or any globe,
All lives and deaths—all of past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has
spanned, and shall forever span them, and
compactly hold them.
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13.
1.O bitter sprig! Confession sprig!
In the bouquet I give you place also—I bind you in,
Proceeding no further till, humbled publicly,
I give fair warning, once for all.
2.I own that I have been sly, thievish, mean, a prevaricator,
greedy, derelict,
And I own that I remain so yet.
3.What foul thought but I think it—or have in me the
stuff out of which it is thought?
What in darkness in bed at night, alone or with a
companion?
4.You felons on trials in courts,
You convicts in prison cells—you sentenced assassins,
chained and handcuffed with iron,
