Posted by fayeroe on December 12, 2008, at 22:13:13
In reply to Re: Obama, posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:16:33
> At the beginning of the article he quotes Walt Whitman:
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> Election Day, 1884
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> If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
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> 'Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
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> Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
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> Nor Oregon's white cones - nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes - nor Mississippi's stream:
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> This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name - the still small voice vibrating -America's choosing day.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thank you!
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