WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading,
Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,
Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,
Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,
Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
More verses by Walt Whitman
- Night On The Prairies
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done
- Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances
- The Dalliance Of The Eagles
- As Toilsome I Wander'D Virginia's Woods