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To the Pending Year

by Walt Whitman

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Have I no weapon-word for thee⁠—some message brief and fierce? (Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left, For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness? Nor for myself⁠—my own rebellious self in thee?
Down, down, proud gorge!⁠—though choking thee; Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter; Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.

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