I am everything true that comes after everything false has come and failed. I am the conquering work of your brains and your hands that comes after all other work has come and failed. I'm so glad I was born. Glad for the universe. What luck it was to the universe the day I was born. I feel that the universe was full paid all old credits that day. I came. I do not hesitate to tell anybody how magnificent I am. I do not try to divert attention from myself by calling attention to the earth that is so many miles through and the sun that is so many degrees hot. I let the devastators do that. I see how much more than their less I amount to. Earths and suns are only a meager per cent. to the plenty of my exaltation. You cant take earths and suns to your heart. But you can take me to your heart. You cant take your degrees and decorations to your heart. They always fall short of solace and must fall short. But you can take me to your heart. I never fall short. You cant take your position in society to your heart. You cant take your overcapitalized name to your heart. You cant take your riches to your heart. Oh, you cant take your riches, all your thousands, all your houses, all your swell possessions, to your heart: and they cost you much. But you can take me to your heart, you can take my eyes that see and ears that hear to your heart, you can take my announcements of immortal life to your heart: they never default, never fall short: and they cost you nothing. I guess I have said all I can say about that. I have got so far in my raptures now I have got beyond words. You must get the rest without words. I'm so glad I was born. And so I have come to sing life: I have come to bring that which is hidden to the surface: And so I have been set apart to deal honestly with man and woman and sex and suffer for it: And so I have been chosen from all the rest as the one who can say what the rest think and desire and dare not justify: And so I declare for them: for the discredited dreams: for the obscured purposes: declare for them and invite those who are angry to take it out of me: And so I stand about where the most people are and issue my challenge and wait for the result: Feeling back of me holding me up the brave beautiful average men and women my comrades who look to me to serve them: Coming into the big world with my little challenge: receiving my cues from what is suppressed in others: Casting my uncompromising nos into the faces of the rulers of the earth: defying their fences and their written compacts. PANKHURST