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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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WHAT BEST I SEE IN THEE.
To U. S. G. return'd from his World's Tour.
Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways, |
Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle, |
Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace, |
Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia
swarm'd upon,
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Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's prome-
nade;
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But that in foreign lands, in all thy walks with kings, |
Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, |
Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the
front,
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Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round
world's promenade,
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