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Leaves of grass (1872)

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

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Leaves of Grass.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA.

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Mannahatta a-march!—and it's O to sing it well!
It's O for a manly life in the camp!

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And the sturdy artillery!
The guns, bright as gold—the work for giants—to serve well the guns:
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Unlimber them! no more, as the past forty years, for salutes for courtesies merely;
Put in something else now besides powder and wadding.
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