Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Years of the Modern

 Years of the modern! years of the unperform'd!
 Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,
 I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations
 preparing,
 I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity
 of races,
 I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,
 (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts
 suitable to them closed?)
 I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty,
 with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
 A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;
 What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?
 I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions,
 I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken,
 I see the landmarks of European kings removed,
 I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;)
 Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,
 Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,
 Lo, how he urges and urges, leaving the masses no (...)
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