This Dust Was Once the Man
1819-1892
This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States.
DayPoems Poem No. 2061
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2061.html">This Dust Was Once the Man by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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