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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.
Notes
1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). Paumanok is the Native American name, and the name Whitman preferred, for Long Island. [back]