Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, O SUN OF REAL PEACE, by WALT WHITMAN


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First Line: O sun of real peace! O hastening light!
Last Line: May, to you.


O sun of real peace! O hastening light!
O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!
O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his
height -- and you too, O my Ideal will surely ascend!
O so amazing and broad -- up there resplendent, darting and burning!
O vision prophetic, stagger'd with weight of light! with
pouring glories!
O lips of my soul, already becoming powerless!
O ample and grand Presidentiads! Now the war, the war is over!
New history! new heroes! I project you!
Visions of poets! only you really last! sweep on! sweep on!
O heights too swift and dizzy yet!
O purged and luminous! you threaten me more than I can stand!
(I must not venture -- the ground under my feet menaces me
-- it will not support me:
O future too immense,) -- O present, I return, while yet I
may, to you.





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