Tuesday, December 23, 2008

America, the Beautiful


"America": Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,

All, all alike endear'd , grown, un grown, young or old,

Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,

Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love.



At the Walt Whitman Archives there is a 36-second wax cylinder recording of what might be Walt Whitman reading four lines from his poem "America." 


For more information about this recording read this New  York Times article


Listen: "America" (in MP3 format)

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