To keep your faith in me,

To witness mine in you!”

She answered: “Dare to see

In every man and woman everywhere

The making of us two.

See none that we can spare

From the creation of our soul.

Swear to be whole.

Let not your faith abate,

But establish it in persons and exalt it in the state.”

IV

Celia has challenged me....

Be my reply,

Challenge to poets who, with tinkling tricks,

Meet life and pass it by.

“Beauty,” they ask, “in politics?”

“If you put it there,” say I.

Wide the new world had opened its bright gates.

And a woman who had heard of the new world

All her life long and had saved her pence

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