Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Election Day, November, 1884

 If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
 'Twould not be you, Niagara--nor you, ye limitless prairies--nor
 your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
 Nor you, Yosemite--nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic
 geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
 Nor Oregon's white cones--nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes--nor
 Mississippi's stream:
 --This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name--the still
 small voice vibrating--America's choosing day,
 (The heart of it not in the chosen--the act itself the main, the
 quadriennial choosing,)
 The stretch of North and South arous'd--sea-board and inland--
 Texas to Maine--the Prairie States--Vermont, Virginia, California,
 The final ballot-shower from East to West--the paradox and conflict,
 The countless snow-flakes falling--(a swordless conflict,
 Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the
 peaceful choice of all,
 Or good or ill humanity--welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
 --Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify--while the heart
 pants, life glows:
 These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
 Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.