The pioneers come behind me:
The ceaseless masses onward follow.

So - I am accompanied on my journey,
Attended by a comitatus:
A retinue, an entourage,
Fellows who blindly follow.

When they muster as a caucus,
When they convene as a congress,
Packed like sardines, thick as hops,
Like flies on a carcass ...
- I demob them, I disband them ...
Dismiss them all, disperse the lot -
Scatter, pepper to the winds:
And then I journey on alone.

Some fellows are barred ... excluded,
Precluded, purged, shut-out.
Colour, race, and segregation ...
That's what I'm on about.
Some revile the foreign devil
In favour of the long-nose men ...
Abroad in distant parts, or home -
I’m at one with aliens.

In worldliness, I am one -
Every mother's son and more:
Tout le monde, every Jack,
His brother or his far-flung wife.
For I am special, I'm distinct -
Your Uncle Dudley, truly yours!
The he, she, it; they, them too;
The videlicet. To wit I am -
The line, pursuit, pet subject,
The main interest, the leading card.
I confine my major in -
By going into minor forms ....

Until all men walk the chalk,
Keep in step, fall into line,