Walt Whitman

[David Lockmiller]

(05-31-2019 04:54 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Washington In the Hot Season
A great example from the Times of what Whitman wrote. If you don't want to read it all, at least read 'A Scene In A Hospital', that begins in the bottom left column.

Two quotes from the New York Times article by Walt Whitman that I want to share:

Such were the fine and vivifying songs these girls sang there for all our sakes, until quite late in the night. The sounds and scene altogether have made an indelible impression on my memory.

I find it so refreshing to talk with these hardy, bright, intuitive, American young men (experienced soldiers with all their youth.) . . . [T]here hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is very quiet regarding it when you desire him to unbosom. I am continually lost at the absence of blowing and blowers among these old-young American militaires.