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MOSES<br />
Destroy the dawn, night would be mixed with<br />
light,<br />
No night or light would be, but a new thing :<br />
So with these slaves, who perhaps have dreamt of<br />
freedom,<br />
Egypt was in the way ; I'll strike it out<br />
With my ways curious and unusual.<br />
I have a trouble in my mind for largeness,<br />
Rough-hearted, shaggy, which your grave ardours<br />
lack :<br />
Here is the quarry quiet for me to hew ;<br />
Here are the springs, primeval elements,<br />
The roots 1<br />
hid secrecy, old source of race,<br />
Unreasoned reason of the savage instinct.<br />
I'd shape one impulse through the contraries<br />
Of vain ambitious men, selfish and callous,<br />
And frail life -drifters, reticent, delicate<br />
Litheness thread bulk, a nation's harmony :<br />
These are not lame nor bent awry, but placeless<br />
With the rust and stagnant. All that's low I'll<br />
charm,<br />
Barbaric love sweeten to tenderness,<br />
Cunning ran into wisdom, craft turn to skill<br />
Their meanness, threaded right and sensibly,<br />
Change to a prudence envied and not sneered ;<br />
Their hugeness be a driving wedge to a thing<br />
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