WALT WHITMAN.
Strong smger of the democratic might; In thrall to Nature's sweet imperious spell: w-y°°jklng stra-ght at life, and marking well, With strenuous pity, all sad human plight; Calling not evd good nor darkness light; gtaimch, rugged soldier in the war with hell; teo blithely sure a coming age will tell Ut trampled error and triumphant right! Thy vistas here were spacious, but their range To-day is ampler: for thy soul set free Is made aware of reaches vast and strange : Spirit-infinitudes ocr land and sea -nn?' £¥ _» ntroubled ken; nor is the change, AVhich baffles many, fraught with fear for thee, punedln, g, y, g,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9390, 1 April 1892, Page 3
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106WALT WHITMAN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 9390, 1 April 1892, Page 3
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