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A Kiss to the Bride

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  • Title: A Kiss to the Bride
  • Date: 21 May 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00134
  • Source: New York Daily Graphic 21 May 1874: 608. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "A Kiss to the Bride." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00134.xml (TEI)
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A KISS TO THE BRIDE.

Sacred, blithesome, undenied, With benisons from East and West, And salutations North and South, Through me indeed to-day a million hearts and 
  hands, Wafting a million loves, a million soul-felt prayers; —Tender and true remain the arm that shields thee Fair winds always fill the ship's sails that sail thee! Clear sun by day, and bright stars at night, beam on 
  thee! Dear girl—through me the ancient privilege too, For the New World, through me, the old, old wed- 
  ding greeting: O youth and health! O sweet Missouri rose! O 
  bonny bride! Yield thy red cheeks, thy lips, to-day, Unto a Nation's loving kiss. WALT WHITMAN.
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