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