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[FOR THE NEW YORK HERALD.]
to-day) who lived through the big fight;
But the bravest pressed to the front, and fell, un-
named, unknown.
WALT WHITMAN.
THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS.
Brave, brave and true were the soldiers (high-namedto-day) who lived through the big fight;
But the bravest pressed to the front, and fell, un-
named, unknown.
WALT WHITMAN.
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Publication Information
"The Bravest Soldiers."
New York Herald
18 March 1888:
14.
Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).
Notes
The "Sands at Seventy" printing of "The Bravest Soldiers" omits several words from the first line that were included in the Herald printing. The poem appeared again in the newspaper on April 30, 1888 and was the only of Whitman's Herald poems to be reprinted in the paper. The text of the poem was the same in both instances, with the exception of slight punctuation differences.
Whitman Archive ID
per.00116