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Title: America
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: February 11, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: per.00081
Source: New York Herald 11 February 1888: 4. 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, and Susan Belasco
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AMERICA.1
Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young
or old,
or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law
and Love,
and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair'd in the adamant of Time.
WALT WHITMAN.