Blowing in the wind
May 16, 2021
2 minutes
BERNARD LAGAN
Beat! beat! drums! – blow!
bugles! blow!
Through the windows – through
doors – burst like a ruthless
force,
Into the solemn church, and
scatter the congregation,
Into the school where the scholar
is studying,
− Walt Whitman, 1861.
Walt Whitman, America’s poet of the people, published his warning shortly after the first battle of the Civil War the great
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