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Title: Paumanok
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: February 29, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: per.00110
Source: New York Herald 29 February 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 and Susan Belasco
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PAUMANOK.1
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:—
Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with
copious commerce, steamers, sails,
copious commerce, steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or
gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the
distance
gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the
distance
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy
air and soil!
air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!
WALT WHITMAN.
Notes:
1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). Paumanok is the Native American name, and the name Whitman preferred, for Long Island. [back]