I am to wait — I do not doubt I am to meet you

again,

I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

This moment as I sit alone, yearning and thoughtful, it seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful ;

It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy, France, Spain — Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or India — talking other dialects ;

And it seems to me if I could know those men better,

I should become attached to them, as I do to men in my own lands.

It seems to me they are as wise, beautiful, benevolent, as any in my own lands ;

I know we should be brethren and lovers,

1 know I should be happy with them.

I hear it is charged against me that I seek to destroy institutions ;

But really I am neither for nor against institutions,

(What indeed have I in common with them ? — Or what with the destruction of them?)