object:1.whitman - In Former Songs
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
In Former Songs
In former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful
Life,
But here I twine the strands of Patriotism and Death.
And now, Life, Pride, Love, Patriotism and Death,
To you, O FREEDOM, purport of all!
(You that elude me mostrefusing to be caught in songs of mine,)
I offer all to you.
'Tis not for nothing, Death,
I sound out you, and words of you, with daring toneembodying you,
In my new Democratic chantskeeping you for a close,
For last impregnable retreata citadel and tower,
For my last standmy pealing, final cry.
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