Remembering inland America, the high plateaus, stretching long?

Remembering Kanada—Remembering what edges the vast round edge of the Mexican Sea?

Come duly to the divine power to use words?

3. For only at last, after many years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,

After treading ground and breasting river and lake,

After a loosened throat—after absorbing eras, temperaments, races—after knowledge, freedom, crimes,

After complete faith—after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,

After these, and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to use words.

4. Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—None refuse, all attend,

Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,

They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man, or that woman.

5. O now I see arise orators fit for inland America,

And I see it is as slow to become an orator as to become a man,

And I see that power is folded in a great vocalism.

6. Of a great vocalism, when you hear it, the merciless light shall pour, and the storm rage around,