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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 19. What Best I See in Thee


[To U. S. G. return'd from his World's Tour]

What best I see in thee,
Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,
Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle,
Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,
Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade;
But that in foreign lands, in all thy walks with kings,
Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,
Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round
      world's promenade,
Were all so justified.



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 28. Old Salt Kossabone
  2. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 32. Life
  3. Leaves of Grass. 24. Autumn Rivulets. 23. To a Pupil
  4. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 7. The Pallid Wreath
  5. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 47. Orange Buds by Mail from Florida


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