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Walt Whitman - One Song, America, Before I Go
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ONE song, America, before I go,
I`d sing, o`er all the rest, with trumpet sound,
For thee—the Future.

I`d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality;
I`d fashion thy Ensemble, including Body and Soul;
I`d show, away ahead, thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish`d.

(The paths to the House I seek to make,
But leave to those to come, the House itself.)

Belief I sing—and Preparation;
As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the Present
         only,                                                        


But greater still from what is yet to come,
Out of that formula for Thee I sing.
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