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Walt Whitman: Poems

Drum Taps: O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy


O tan-faced prairie boy!

Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift;

Praises and presents came, and nourishing food--till at last, among the

recruits,

You came, taciturn, with nothing to give--we but looked on each other,

When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.

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