Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D, IN ASPIRATION VAST, by WALT WHITMAN


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Last Line: Quench'd by an early death
Subject(s): Failure


To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast,
To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,
To calm, devoted engineers''"to over-ardent travelers''"to pilots on their ships,
To many a lofty song and picture without recognition''"I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
High, high above the rest''"To all cut off before their time,
Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
Quench'd by an early death.





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