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PAUMANOK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:—

 Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!
 One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with
       copious commerce, steamers, sails,
 And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or
       gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the
       distance
 Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy
       air and soil!
 Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

WALT WHITMAN.

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Publication Information
"Paumanok."  New York Herald  29 February 1888:  6.  Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).

Notes
Paumanok is the Native American name, and the name Whitman preferred, for Long Island.

Whitman Archive ID
per.00110


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