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This Dust Was Once the Man
by Walt Whitman

US poet, journalist and essayist. Best known for the poetry collection Leaves of Grass (1855, 1856, 1860 with another six editions in his lifetime). Other poetry includes Drum Taps (1865) and Sequel to Drum Taps (1866). Prose includes Specimen Days (1882) which includes an informal autobiography.


This Dust Was Once the Man
by Walt Whitman

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.


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