Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
This Dust was Once the Man
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THIS dust was once the Man, |
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Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, |
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Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, |
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Was saved the Union of These States. |
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