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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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lit"' in t r y i n g 1 realize (lie i d e a l in biin elf, :in<i In did a well as ho <-nulcL The terrible disap] >intment which ho must havo r« It at his unfri ndly re lion ne\ r soured him, i>ut l<>ihev ry last IK pres r\ d th« tine calm of self-< <>nfidence ami l ilmce. The great tragi l\ in Whitman' cai is that the livine a\ ige" which he so much lov< the "powerful uneducated pen n," will never give iap of his finger for the stoutest champion 1 e r 1 : u ever had iii America. To the future til Good < • ray P o e t " m u s t 1 <>k. Poets to come ! orators, singers, musicians to come ! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continent I, gi r than before known, Arouse ! Arouse-—for you must justify me—you must answer. I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, 1 but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness. I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully slopping, turns a causual look upon you, and then averts lus (ace, Leaving it to you to prove and define it, Expecting the main things from you." 44 % \ *
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