This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Hero's Tale." In this poem, Longfellow describes a young man who is "brave and young" and who has "the highest honor and glory for him." The young man, however, is not a king. He is an ant, and he is unable to give his body to the young man because of his "ant inhibit this body." This is a common complaint made by young men, who are unable to "give their body to me" because of ant-like hindrances. This complaint is repeated by the young men in this chapter. In this chapter, the ant's hindrances are the same as those of a king, because the king's power is greater. The young men are not able to give their bodies to the king because of their ant. This is because of the fact that the king has accumulated so many privileges, and the number of privileges he has accumulated comes to 345,009. He tells the men that he is going to swallow them all up and become the only king on the face of the earth. He will become the sun, the only emperor on earth, and "the only ki ng . . crack crack crack, crack crack the only and only king." He will be the only one and only emperor in the world. The men are shocked at the idea that