QuoteQuest“O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Walt Whitman
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak
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Whitman, Walt. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Walt Whitman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman
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