What Words, Walt Whitman, For Election Day?

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LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
11-02-2008
What Words, Walt Whitman, For Election Day?

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LIANE HANSEN, host:

The poet Ezra Pound called Walt Whitman America's poet. He is America.

JUAN WILLIAMS: (Reading) Take my leaves, America, take them. South, take them north. Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring. Surround them east and west for they would surround you. And you, presidents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.

HANSEN: That was NPR's Juan Williams reading a passage from Walt ...

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