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To Foreign Lands.

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

I HEARD that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy;
Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you wanted.




Quotes of the Day

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I".
• Ayn Rand


Poems of the Day
  • James Whitcomb Riley
    "Company Manners"
    by James Whitcomb Riley
    When Bess gave her Dollies a Tea, said she,-- "It's unpolite, when they's Company, To say you've drinked _two_ cups, you see,-- But say you've drinked _a couple_ of tea."