Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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34

 Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
 (I tell not the fall of Alamo,
 Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
 The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)
 'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve
 young men.
 
 Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for
 breastworks,
 Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemies, nine times their
 number, was the price they took in advance,
 Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
 They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and
 seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
 
 They were the glory of the race of rangers,
 Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
 Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
 Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
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