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But in due time you and I shall take less interest
in them.

19.Your farm, profits, crops,—to think how engrossed
you are!

To think there will still be farms, profits, crops—yet
for you, of what avail?

20.What will be, will be well—for what is, is well,
To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall
be well.

21.The sky continues beautiful,
The pleasure of men with women shall never be sated,
nor the pleasure of women with men, nor the
pleasure from poems,
The domestic joys, the daily house-work or business,
the building of houses—these are not phantasms
—they have weight, form, location;
Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government,
are none of them phantasms,
The difference between sin and goodness is no
delusion,
The earth is not an echo—man and his life, and all
the things of his life, are well-considered.

22.You are not thrown to the winds—you gather certainly
and safely around yourself,
Yourself! Yourself! Yourself, forever and ever!

23.It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your
mother and father—it is to identify you,
It is not that you should be undecided, but that you
should be decided;