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Chants Democratic.
:They tumble forth, they rise and form,
- Hut, tent, landing, survey,
- Flail, plough, pick, crowbar, spade,
- Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,
- Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition-house, library,
- Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, shutter, turret, porch,
- Hoe, rake, pitch-fork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
- Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor,
- Work-box, chest, stringed instrument, boat, frame, and what not,
- Capitols of States, and capitol of the nation of States,
- Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
- Manhattan steamboats and clippers, taking the measure of all seas.
25. The shapes arise!
- Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users, and all that neighbors them,
- Cutters down of wood, and haulers of it to the Penobscot, or Kennebec,
- Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains, or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,
- Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
- Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellowstone river—dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
- Seal-fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice.
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