Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MEDIUMS, by WALT WHITMAN


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First Line: They shall arise in the states
Last Line: Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.
Subject(s): Democracy


They shall arise in the States,
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,
They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and
supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of
products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef,
lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,
They shall train themselves to go in public to become
orators and oratresses,
Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and
materials of poems shall come from their lives, they
shall be makers and finders,
Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers,
to convey gospels,
Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in
gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,
Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.





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