What can be answered he answers—and what cannot be answered, he shows how it cannot be answered.

7. A man is a summons and challenge;

(It is vain to skulk—Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?)

8. Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down, seeking to give satisfaction,

He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.

9. Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely, by day or by night,

He has the pass-key of hearts—to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.

10. His welcome is universal—the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,

The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.

11. Every existence has its idiom—everything has an idiom and tongue,

He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,

One part does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they join.

12. He says indifferently and alike, How are you, friend? to the President at his levee,