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29.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 distinguished, may be well,
But there is more account than that—there is strict
account of all.

30.The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked
are not nothing,
The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
The common people of Europe are not nothing—the
American aborigines are not nothing,
The infected in the immigrant hospital are not
nothing—the murderer or mean person is not
nothing,
The perpetual successions of shallow people are not
nothing as they go,
The lowest prostitute is not nothing—the mocker of
religion is not nothing as he goes.

31.I shall go with the rest—we have satisfaction,
I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so
much, nor the law of us changed,
I have dreamed 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 dreamed that the law they are under now
is enough.

32.And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so
much changed, and that there is no life without
satisfaction;
What is the earth? what are body and Soul, without
satisfaction?