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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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TRUE CONQUERORS.
Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or
bent,)
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Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck, |
Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and
scars;
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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,
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True conquerors o'er all the rest. |
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