The Walt Whitman Archive
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Lo! Victress on the Peaks!
Lo! Victress on the peaks!
Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world,
(The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired against
thee;)
thee;)
Out of its countless, beleaguering toils, after thwarting
them all;)
them all;)
Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,
Flauntest now unharm'd, in immortal soundness and
bloom—lo! in these hours supreme,
bloom—lo! in these hours supreme,
No poem proud, I, chanting, bring to thee—nor mastery's
rapturous verse;
rapturous verse;
But a book, containing night's darkness, and blood-
dripping wounds,
dripping wounds,
And psalms of the dead.