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Walt Whitman

In 1855, Whitman took out a copyright and self-published the first edition of his groundbreaking Leaves of Grass, which he continued to revise and expand throughout his life, publishing several different editions....
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Delicate Cluster
by Walt Whitman

Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing! How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!) Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dappled! Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty! My sacred one, my mother.
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