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Poems Of Walt Whitman: Ethiopia Saluting The Colors
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Whitman, Walt
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Ethiopia Saluting The Colors
Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly - white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet? Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?
('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines, Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me, As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.)
Me master years a hundred since from my parents sunder'd, A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught, Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.
No further does she say, but lingering all the ...
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