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TRUE CONQUERORS by WALT WHITMAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: OLD FARMERS, TRAVELERS, WORKMEN (NO MATTER HOW CRIPPLED OR BENT)
Last Line: TRUE CONQUERORS O'ER ALL THE REST.
Subject(s): OLD AGE;
Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)
Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
Enough that they've survived at all -- long life's unflinching ones!
Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged
at all -- in that alone,
True conquerors o'er all the rest.



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