<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 7.85pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15971"><span style="font-size:18.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1D2129" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15972">This poem, thanks to Leslie Forbes -- <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15973">
Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15974"></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 7.85pt 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15975"><span style="font-size:18.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1D2129" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15976">If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest
scene and show,<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15977">
‘Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts
of canyons, Colorado,</span><span style="font-size:18.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2129" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15978"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15979">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15980">Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its
spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15981">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15982">Nor Oregon’s white cones—nor Huron’s belt of mighty
lakes—nor Mississippi’s stream:</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15983">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15984">—This seething hemisphere’s humanity, as now, I’d name—the
still small voice vibrating—America’s choosing day,</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15985">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15986">(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself
the main, the quadriennial choosing,)</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15987">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15988">The stretch of North and South arous’d—sea-board
and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15989">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15990">The final ballot-shower from East to West—the
paradox and conflict,</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15991">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15992">The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless
conflict,</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15993">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15994">Yet more than all Rome’s wars of old, or modern
Napoleon’s:) the peaceful choice of all,</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15995">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15996">Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds,
the dross:</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15997">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15998">—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to
purify—while the heart pants, life glows:</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15999">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_16000">These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_16001">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_16002">Swell’d Washington’s, Jefferson’s, Lincoln’s sails.</span></span><span style="font-size:18.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1D2129" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_16003"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_16004"></o:p></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478649237750_15894">
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