Skip directly to:
Main content
Main navigation
University of Virginia Library
Search this document
Leaves of grass (1872)
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Leaves of Grass.
PASSAGE TO INDIA.
Collapse All
|
Expand All
Leaves of grass (1872)
THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN.
This
dust was once the Man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of These States.
Leaves of grass (1872)