What Place Is Besieged?

by Walt Whitman · 1867
Published 01/07/1867

WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?

Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal;

And with him horse and foot—and parks of artillery,

And artillerymen, the deadliest that ever fired gun.

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