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TO FOREIGN LANDS by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: I HEARD THAT YOU ASK'D FOR SOMETHING TO PROVE THIS PUZZLE THE NEW WORLD
Last Line: THEREFORE I SEND YOU MY POEMS THAT YOU BEHOLD IN THEM WHAT YOU WANTED.
Subject(s): UNITED STATES; AMERICA;

I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle
the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.



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