WHAT General has a good army in himself, has a good army;
He happy in himself, or she happy in herself, is happy,
But I tell you you cannot be happy by others, any more than you can
beget or conceive a child by others.
More verses by Walt Whitman
- Warble Of Lilac-Time
- To A Historian
- This Moment, Yearning And Thoughtful
- To Foreign Lands
- To The Garden The World