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Leaves of Grass :[1891]

Including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy...2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life

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WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED?
  
  
  
  
  
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WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED?

What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo, I sent to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.