The United States to Old World Critics
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Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty;
As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice,
Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps,
The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.
| from The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman (1918) | |
| As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days | Years of the Modern 
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