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Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 7

Part 7Away with themes of war! away with war itself! Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses! That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 8

Part 8And thou America, Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering, With Victory on thy left, and at thy right hand Law; Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 9

Part 9And thou, the Emblem waving over all! Delicate beauty, a word to thee, (it may be salutary,) Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd, In other…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 1

Part 1A song for occupations! In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments, And find the eternal meanings.Workmen and Workwomen! Were all educations…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 2

Part 2Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching, It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 3

Part 3The sun and stars that float in the open air, The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand, I do not know what it is except that it is grand,…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 4

Part 4The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are, The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him, The Secretaries act in their…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 5

Part 5Will the whole come back then? Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more? Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 6

Part 6Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last, In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest,…