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Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 4

Part 4But hold—don't I forget my manners? To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia; In liberty's name welcome immortal! clasp hands, And ever…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 5

Part 5We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee, (Would the son separate himself from the father?) Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs,…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 6

Part 6(This, this and these, America, shall be your pyramids and obelisks, Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens of Babylon, Your temple at Olympia.)The male and female many laboring not, Shall…

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,…