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WALT WHITMAN'S PRAISE.
HE DEDICATES A POEM TO HIS FRIEND, SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.
As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told
(Tally of many a hard strain'd battle, struggle,
year—triumphant only at the last),
Rose from the hilltop, like applause and glory,
Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,
With rosy tinge reddening the land he'd served,
So I aloft from Mannahatta's ship fringed shore,
Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.
WALT WHITMAN.
HE DEDICATES A POEM TO HIS FRIEND, SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.
AS THE GREEKS SIGNAL FLAME.
[For Whittier's Eightieth Birthday, December 17, 1887.]
As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told
(Tally of many a hard strain'd battle, struggle,
year—triumphant only at the last),
Rose from the hilltop, like applause and glory,
Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,
With rosy tinge reddening the land he'd served,
So I aloft from Mannahatta's ship fringed shore,
Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.
WALT WHITMAN.
Copy-text
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Publication Information
"As the Greeks Signal Flame."
New York Herald
15 December 1887:
3.
Reprinted in the Boston Daily Advertiser (17 December 1887); Munyon's Illustrated World (January 1888); and then in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).
Notes
The "Sands at Seventy" printing of the poem omits the second line.
Whitman Archive ID
per.00080