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A TRIBUTE OF GRASSES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Serene, vast head, with silver cloud of hair
Last Line: Here by the eastern sea.
Subject(s): Grass; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


TO W. W.

SERENE, vast head, with silver cloud of hair
Lined on the purple dusk of death,
A stern medallion, velvet set --
Old Norseman, throned, not chained upon thy chair,
Thy grasp of hand, thy hearty breath
Of welcome thrills me yet
As when I faced thee there!

Loving my plain as thou thy sea,
Facing the East as thou the West,
I bring a handful of grass to thee, --
The prairie grasses I know the best;
Type of the wealth and width of the plain,
Strong of the strength of the wind and sleet,
Fragrant with sunlight and cool with rain,
I bring it and lay it low at thy feet,
Here by the eastern sea.





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