Transcriber's note

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Minor punctuationerrors have been changed without notice. A few typographicalerrors have been changed, and they are indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end of this book.


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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


title


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 editionpublished by us, is issued with the approval of the Whitman Executors,T. B. Harned and Horace Traubel, holders of the copyright. With oneexception each poem here printed is complete.

The Publishers.



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Americaii
I. POEMS OF WAR
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting3
Beat! Beat! Drums!4
City of Ships6
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown...

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