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1. Earth, round, rolling, compact -- suns, moons, animals -- all these are words / to be said; / Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances -- beings, premonitions, lispings of / the future, / Behold! these are vast words to be said.
Were you thinking that those were the words -- those upright lines? those / curves, angles, dots? / No, those are not the words -- the substantial words are in the ground and sea, / They are in the air -- they are in you.