The Walt Whitman Archive
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O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;
Praises and presents came, and nourishing food—till at
last, among the recruits,
last, among the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd
on each other,
on each other,
When lo! more than all the gifts of the world, you
gave me.
gave me.