“I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.”

—  Walt Whitman , Starting from Paumanok

Starting from Paumanok, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

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