Walt Whitman - Drum-Taps (1865)

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Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!

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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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Be not dishearten'd — Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

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Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

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O Banner!
Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.

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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

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Lo! the moon ascending!
Up from the East, the silvery round moon;
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;
Immense and silent moon.

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Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

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Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.

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