4th of July
July 4th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Since it’s the 4th of July, and the first edition of Walt Whitman’s book Leaves of Grass was published on this date in 1855, I thought this poem from Whitman’s book was only appopriate.
Long, Too Long America
Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn’d from joys and prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
(For who except myself has yet conceiv’d what your children en-masse really are?)
Have a Happy Fourth!
