Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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10

 Of these States the poet is the equable man,
 Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of
 their full returns,
 Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad,
 He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither
 more nor less,
 He is the arbiter of the diverse, he is the key,
 He is the equalizer of his age and land,
 He supplies what wants supplying, he checks what wants checking,
 In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich,
 thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts,
 commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health,
 immortality, government,
 In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as
 good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,
 The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady (...)
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