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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

4. To Foreign Lands

I HEARD that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World,

And to define America, her athletic Democracy;

Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you wanted.