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The Torch-Bearers: A Paean for the Fourth of July, After Walt Whitman [from Vanity Fair]

[Winter, William]. "The Torch-Bearers: A Paean for the Fourth of July, After Walt Whitman [from Vanity Fair]." New-York Saturday Press, July 17, 1860, 4.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

A patriotic poem about the glory of Independence Day written in the style of Walt Whitman. The first stanza follows the opening stanza of "Song of Myself."

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