Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire

 Courage yet, my brother or my sister!
 Keep on--Liberty is to be subserv'd whatever occurs;
 That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any
 number of failures,
 Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any
 unfaithfulness,
 Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
 
 What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents,
 Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is
 positive and composed, knows no discouragement,
 Waiting patiently, waiting its time.
 
 (Not songs of loyalty alone are these,
 But songs of insurrection also,
 For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over,
 And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him,
 And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.)
 
 The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat,
 The infidel triumphs, or supposes he triumphs,
 The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and
 leadballs do their work,
 The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
 The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in (...)
(......)