Lo! Victress On The Peaks
By Walt Whitman
Lo! Victress on the peaks! Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world, (The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee;) Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all; Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee, Flauntest now unharm'd, in immortal soundness and bloom - lo! in these hours supreme, No poem proud, I, chanting, bring to thee - nor mastery's rapturous verse; But a book, containing night's darkness, and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.
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