John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Walt Whitman. (1819–1892) (continued) |
| 7400 |
| Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination! Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination? |
| Youth, Day, Old Age and Night. |
| 7401 |
| Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead. |
| Roaming in Thought. 1 |
| 7402 |
| Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! |
| Drum-Taps. Rise O Days from your fathomless Deep. 3. |
| 7403 |
| O Banner! Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them; You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money; May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast. |
| Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak. |
| 7404 |
| Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars. |
| Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side. |
| 7405 |
| Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling! |
| Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun. |
| 7406 |
| Lo! the moon ascending! Up from the East, the silvery round moon; Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon; Immense and silent moon. |
| Drum-Taps. Dirge for Two Veterans. |
| Note 1. See Herbert Spencer, page 773. [back] |