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Chants Democratic.
2. I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
- The vast factories with their foremen and workmen,
- And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.
3. But we too announce solid things.
- Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing—they serve,
- They stand for realities—all is as it should be.
4. Then my realities,
- What else is so real as mine?
- Libertad, and the divine average—Freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
- The rapt promises and lumine of seers—the spiritual world—these centuries-lasting songs,
- And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
5. For we support all, .
- After the rest is done and gone, we remain,
- There is no final reliance but upon us,
- Democracy rests finally upon us, (I, my brethren, begin it,)
- And our visions sweep through eternity.
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