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The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman Quotes
The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman
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The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman Quotes
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“But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded,
To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
To obey as well as command, to follow more than to lead,
These also are the lessons of our New World;
While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!
- Song of the exposition”
― The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman
To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
To obey as well as command, to follow more than to lead,
These also are the lessons of our New World;
While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!
- Song of the exposition”
― The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman
