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1819–1892

O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.

Walt Whitman

O tan-faced prairie-boy, Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift, Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits, You came, taciturn, with nothing to give-we but look'd on each other,

When lo; more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.

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