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TO-DAY AND THEE.
[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]The appointed winners in a long-stretched game;
The course of Time and nations—Egypt and
India, Greece and Rome;
The cost entire, with all its heroes, histories,
arts, experiments,
Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teach-
ers, books,
Garnered for now and thee—To think of it!
The heirdom all converged in thee!
WALT WHITMAN.
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Publication Information
"To-day and Thee."
New York Herald
23 April 1888:
6.
Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).
Whitman Archive ID
per.00085