"THIS dust was once the Man, /..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.
More by Walt Whitman
“I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.”
“We convince by our presence.”
“not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.”