Leaves of Grass (1871-72)

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TO FOREIGN LANDS.

I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this
         puzzle, the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy;
Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in
         them what you wanted.
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