Walking with Walt Whitman
A daily installment from Leaves of Grass.

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To a Historian

You who celebrate bygones,
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has                     exhibited itself,
Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of          man in himself,)
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,
I project the history of the future.

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Leaves of Grass – Wikisource
Image – Walt Whitman, age 35, from the frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison (my frame) ~ Wikipedia