What Place is Besieged?

created by yam
(idea) by yam (5.1 y) (print)   (I like it!) Sun Apr 23 2000 at 1:21:19
From Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman:

What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.
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