Towards democracy, стр. 96

82 Towards Democracy

the sweat of nightlong companions, with the bruised sweet. ness of love; :

With sleep, sleep, with the wine of life and death, with: kisses given and received, with the reaching of arms round neck and shoulder, and the answer of quiet eyes;

With nakedness unashamed, with divine comradeship, and laughter ; with the enclosing shadow of Death, far lost in daring outposts on the verge of the Unknown; with soldier-. ship and armor unremitted, exultant :

With childhood and the least trifle content ; with eternal Nowness ; with perfected Carelessness ; with night, day, rain, sun, winter, summer, morning, evening, solitude, pain, pleasure, and the looking forth of innumerable faces ;

With Chastity and Ascendancy ; with invulnerability and superhuman power; with Unchastity and Effusion; with” live clinging threads of love reaching down to the remotest time ; i

With the endless journey begun ; with trades by sea and land ; simple food, coarse clothing, common features; with the breath of the common air, and the freemasonry of the old crafts all over the world ;

Shaggy coat-shakings, revolts, rejections of accepted = things, travels, disappearances, re-appearances, swoonings away, oblivions ; arising again on earth, irresistible, to supreme mastery,

To Savagery and the wild woods, with unfettered step ; | to rocks and hanging branches; to the dens of the animals, to wind and sun, blowing shining through, and I through them, to evade and arise;