Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, 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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