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>>3767202
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All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, 50
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying, Pioneers! O pioneers!

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I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores, amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing, Pioneers! O pioneers!

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Lo! the darting bowling orb!
Lo! the brother orbs around! all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams, Pioneers! O pioneers!

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These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind, 60
We to-day’s procession heading, we the route for travel clearing, Pioneers! O pioneers!

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O you daughters of the west!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united, Pioneers! O pioneers!