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Title: To-day and Thee
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: April 23, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: per.00085
Source: New York Herald 23 April 1888: 6. 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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TO-DAY AND THEE.1
[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]
The appointed winners in a long-stretched game;
The course of Time and nations—Egypt and
India, Greece and Rome;
India, Greece and Rome;
The cost entire, with all its heroes, histories,
arts, experiments,
arts, experiments,
Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teach-
ers, books,
ers, books,
Garnered for now and thee—To think of it!
The heirdom all converged in thee!
WALT WHITMAN.