...itself, "the produced babe of the vegetation"; an emblem of democracy, "a uniform hieroglyphic . . . Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, / Growing among black folks as among white"; and finally "the beautiful uncut hair of graves," the sign of immortality in the shared life of all...

...and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child ... the produced babe of the vegetation. Or 1 guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means,...it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. (31) The speaker does not arrive at one defining image, but moves through a list of guesses from himself,...