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1819–1892

The Bravest Soldiers

Walt Whitman

This latent mine — these unlaunch'd voices — passionate powers, Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout, ( Not nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, long primer merely,) These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,

Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep, Within the pallid slivers slumbering.

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