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Title: Song For All Seas, All Ships Author: Walt Whitman [More Titles by Whitman] 1 To-day a rude brief recitative,
Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay. Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee, Indomitable, untamed as thee.
Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
Flaunt out O sea your separate flags of nations! Flaunt out visible as ever the various ship-signals! But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest, A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death, Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates, And all that went down doing their duty, Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old, A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o'er all brave sailors, All seas, all ships. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |