4.
Of ownership — As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself ;
Of Equality — As if it harmed me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself — As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same ;
Of Justice — As if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviours.
As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.
5.
As I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing,
To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral, in mist, of a wreck at sea.
Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations, foundered off the Northeast coast, and going down — Of the steamship Arctic going down.
Of the veiled tableau — Women gathered together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close — the moment I