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Title: The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman

Author: Walt Whitman

Release Date: December 11, 2008 [EBook #27494]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

THE PATRIOTIC POEMS

OF

WALT WHITMAN

[Illustration]

America

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike, endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair'd in the adamant of Time.

THE PATRIOTIC POEMS

OF

WALT WHITMAN

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1918

_Copyright, 1918, by_

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

COPYRIGHT
1855, 1856, 1860, 1867
1871, 1876, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1888, 1891

BY WALT WHITMAN

COPYRIGHT
1897

BY RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE
THOMAS B. HARNED AND HORACE L. TRAUBEL
LITERARY EXECUTORS OF WALT WHITMAN

COPYRIGHT
1902

BY THOMAS B. HARNED AND HORACE L. TRAUBEL
SURVIVING LITERARY EXECUTORS OF WALT WHITMAN

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This little volume of poems, selected from the complete edition
published by us, is issued with the approval of the Whitman Executors,
T. B. Harned and Horace Traubel, holders of the copyright. With one
exception each poem here printed is complete.

THE PUBLISHERS.