...marked Whitman's great ode to Lincoln. My stomach clenches as it always does when Whitman makes me see "the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war." My arms get bumpy at "the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim" where the poet retreats with...

...beneath you are folded? Or, Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody. Or again (an elegiac couplet) — Chants going forth from the centre, from Kansas, and thence equidistant...

...as in noiseless dreams, hundreds of battle-flags; / . . . And at last but a few shreds of the flags left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter'd and broken" (LG Var II, 538). The Union had been shattered, primarily through its adherence to its foundational...

...Sarajevo, Palestine, Somalia, or Haiti today. . . . And Walt Whitman's "I Saw The Vision Of Armies": I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them. And the white...— I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all dead soldiers; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest — they...

...hundreds of batde-flags; Borne through the smoke of the batdes, and pierc'd with missiles, I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody; And at last but a few shreds of the flags left on the staffs (and all in silence), And the staffs all splinter'd and broken. I saw...

...hundreds of battle-flags, Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war.3 0 Ultimately, however, it is not the dead he is seeing, in all their familiar agony, but a new...

...cannily and categorically asserts that whereas the living remain and suffer, the dead are fully at rest: I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white...I saw them, I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war, But I saw they were not as was thought, They themselves were fully at rest,...

...asserts that whereas the living remain and suffer, the dead are fully at rest: I saw hattle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young...I saw them, I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war, But I saw they were not as was thoughr, They themselves were fully at resr,...

...hundreds of battle-flags, Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...and bloody, And at last but a few shreds left on the staff, (and all in silence,) And the staffs all splinter'd and broken. I saw battle-corpses, myriads...

...hundreds of battle-flags, Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in 15 J2 2:18 AM Page 140 I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men,...