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Bravo, Paris Exposition!

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BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!1

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]

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