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— John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS.

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Walt Whitman·1819–1892
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o, 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 thesehours supreme,No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturousverse,But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds,And psalms of the dead.
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