What Place Is Besieged?
1819-1892
What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.
DayPoems Poem No. 1893
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1893.html">What Place Is Besieged? by Walt Whitman</a>
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