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. 17 Jul. 1860: 4.
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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AUTHOR(S) OF - The Torch-Bearers: A Paean for the Fourth of July, After Walt Whitman [from Vanity Fair]
Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.
