Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Walt Whitman

Author:Walt Whitman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barnes&Noble

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters,

Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping!

As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man,

Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,

You to speak in your turn, and I to listen and tell.

The Centenarian

When I clutch’d your hand it was not with terror,

But suddenly pouring about me here on every side,

And below there where the boys were drilling, and up the slopes

they ran,

And where tents are pitch‘d, and wherever you see south and

south-east and south-west,

Over hills, across lowlands, and in the skirts of woods,

And along the shores, in mire (now fill’d over) came again and

suddenly raged,

As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv’d with applause

of friends,

But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I

took part in it,

Walking then this hilltop, this same ground.

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