Other May Praise What They Like

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)




   OTHERS may praise what they like;
   But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing, in
         art, or aught else,
   Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river--also the
         western prairie-scent,
   And fully exudes it again.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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