I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
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To Foreign Lands
by Walt Whitman
From Standard Ebooks · standardebooks/walt-whitman_leaves-of-grass
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