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BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!
ADD to your show, before you close it, France,
With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, tow-
ers, goods, machines, and ores,
Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-
throbs, ethereal, but solid,
(We grandsons and great-grandsons do not for-
get your grandsires),
From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations com-
pacted, sent over sea to-day,
America's applause, love, memories, and good-
will.
WALT WHITMAN.
Notes
1. Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [back]