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Passing the hues and objects of the world,
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The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,
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Put in thy chants said he,
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No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,
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Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,
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Ever the growth, the rounding of the circle,
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Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
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Ever materials, changing, crumbling, re-cohering,
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Ever the ateliers, the factories divine,
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Or woman, man, or state, known or unknown,
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We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build,
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But really build eidólons.
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The substance of an artists mood or savans studies long,
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Or warriors, martyrs, heros toils,
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(The units gatherd, posted, not a thought, emotion, deed, left out,)
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The whole or large or small summd, added up,
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Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles,
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From science and the modern still impelld,
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The old, old urge, eidólons.
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The present now and here,
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Americas busy, teeming, intricate whirl,
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Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing,
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Of vanishd lands, of all the reigns of kings across the sea,
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Old conquerors, old campaigns, old sailors voyages,
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Densities, growth, façades,
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Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,
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Far-born, far-dying, living long, to leave,
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The visible but their womb of birth,
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Of orbic tendencies to shape and shape and shape,
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The mighty earth-eidólon.
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(The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns,
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Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use,)
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Filld with eidólons only.
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The infinite oceans where the rivers empty,
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The separate countless free identities, like eyesight,
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The true realities, eidólons.
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Nor these the universes, they the universes,
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Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
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Beyond thy lectures learnd professor,
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Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics,
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Beyond the doctors surgery, anatomy, beyond the chemist with his chemistry,
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The entities of entities, eidólons.
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Ever shall be, ever have been and are,
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Sweeping the present to the infinite future,
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Eidólons, eidólons, eidólons.
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The prophet and the bard,
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Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet,
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Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them,
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Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations,
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Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,
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The body lurking there within thy body,
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The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
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Thy very songs not in thy songs,
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No special strains to sing, none for itself,
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But from the whole resulting, rising at last and floating,
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A round full-orbd eidólon.