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The IRS Wronged Trump. This $1.776 Billion "Anti-Weaponization" Fund Still Stinks.
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California Government Unions Will Try Anything To Keep Their Members From Returning To The Office
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Los Angeles Socialists Love Their Billionaires
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The U.S. Department Of Justice: UCLA Abandoned Jewish Students
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Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, And The Weirdest Mayor’s Race In America
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Social Security’s Fiscal Clock Is Running Out — And Washington Won’t Look At It
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Top Ten Winners & Losers In California Politics For The Week Ending 5/22 - And We Present The Worst Week In Politics Video…
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On This Date In 1819
FAMOUS AMERICAN POET WALT WHITMAN WAS BORN
On this day in 1819, Walt Whitman was born on Long Island, New York. He would become one of America’s most influential poets and one of the defining literary voices of the 19th century.
Whitman is best known for Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. His poetry broke sharply with the formal style of his era, using free verse, long lines, and direct language to explore democracy, nature, work, death, freedom, and the American experience.
During the Civil War, Whitman volunteered in military hospitals, where he cared for wounded Union soldiers. That experience deepened his writing about suffering, sacrifice, and national grief.
One of his best-known poems is O Captain! My Captain!, written after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The poem uses the image of a ship’s captain who dies just as his vessel reaches shore — a metaphor for Lincoln leading the Union through the Civil War, only to be killed after victory.
O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.