Not The Pilot

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Title:     Not The Pilot
Author: Walt Whitman [More Titles by Whitman]

Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;

Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long,

By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,

More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose march for these States,

For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.

[The end]
Walt Whitman's poem: Not The Pilot

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