The Walt Whitman Archive
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Books by Whitman
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RACE OF VETERANS.
RACE of veterans! Race of victors!
Race of the soil, ready for conflict! race of the conquer-
ing march!
ing march!
(No more credulity's race, abiding-temper'd race;)
Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself;
Race of passion and the storm.