Race of Veterans

by Walt Whitman · 1871
Published 01/07/1871

RACE of veterans! Race of victors!

Race of the soil, ready for conflict! race of the conquer-ingconquering march!

(No more credulity's race, abiding-temper'd race;)

Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself;

Race of passion and the storm.

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