object:1.whitman - Turn, O Libertad
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
TURN, O Libertad, for the war is over,
(From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute,
sweeping the world,)
Turn from lands retrospective, recording proofs of the past;
From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past;
From the chants of the feudal worldthe triumphs of kings, slavery,
caste;
Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to comegive up that
backward world;
Leave to the singers of hithertogive them the trailing past;
But what remains, remains for singers for youwars to come are for
you;
(Lo! how the wars of the past have duly inured to youand the wars
of the present also inure
Then turn, and be not alarm'd, O Libertadturn your undying
face,
To where the future, greater than all the past,
Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
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