To a Western Boy
1819-1892
Many things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins,
If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?
DayPoems Poem No. 1950
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1950.html">To a Western Boy by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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