Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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8

 Slow moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
 Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the
 Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,
 And they between, and all through the Mississippi country, and all
 over the earth.
 
 The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and
 good-doers are well,
 The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and
 distinguish'd may be well,
 But there is more account than that, there is strict account of all.
 
 The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
 The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
 The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
 
 Of and in all these things,
 I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of
 us changed,
 I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present
 and past law,
 And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and
 past law,
 For I have dream'd (...)
(......)