Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass

A Walt Whitman Collection

Book I. Inscriptions

What Place is Besieged

What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.