The United States to Old World Critics
1819-1892
Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty;
As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice,
Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps,
The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.
DayPoems Poem No. 2202
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2202.html">The United States to Old World Critics by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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