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.
More verses by Walt Whitman
- The Ship Starting
- Now List To My Morning's Romanza
- The Mystic Trumpeter
- One Sweeps By
- France, The 18th Year Of These States