Leaves of Grass (1891-92)


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TRUE CONQUERORS.

Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or
         bent,)
Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and
         scars;
Enough that they've survived at all—long life's unflinching ones!
Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all
         —in that alone,
True conquerors o'er all the rest.
 
 
 
 
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