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* '''What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents,<br> Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,<br> Waiting patiently, waiting its time.'''

 

 

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===To Him That Was Crucified (1860; 1881)===

*''' My spirit to yours dear brother,<br> Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,<br> I do not sound your name, but I understand you,'''<br> I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,<br> That '''we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession,<br> We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,<br> We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,'''<br> Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,<br> '''We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,<br> We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,<br> They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,<br> Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,<br> Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.'''