Paumanok

by Walt Whitman · 1891-1892
Published 01/07/1891

Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!

One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,

And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.

Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!

Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

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