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grains, forages, damaged feeds and garbage and convert them into valuable nutritious meat.
The point Emerson made about conformity is that whatever people believe in is right and no matter what people say don't believe them.
The kind of conjunction that would complete both blanks in the sentence is a correlative conjunction, such as - both... and, neither... nor, etc.
In my opinion it relates to athletes only because it talks about winning victory and then at the end of the poem it explains how you will soon be forgotten by saying "the name died before the man."