Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Year of Meteors

1859-60

 Year of meteors! brooding year!
 I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs,
 I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
 I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the
 scaffold in Virginia,
 (I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
 I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling
 with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
 I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States,
 The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships
 and their cargoes,
 The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with
 immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
 Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would welcome give,
 And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young
 prince of England!
 (Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your
 cortege of nobles?
 (...)
(......)