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Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917.

Mannahatta

Walt Whitman

MY city’s fit and noble name resume,

Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,

A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.