That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the ch…

Walt Whitman
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That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life. ✨ With Walt Whitman in Camden. Book by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV (p. 508), 1906.
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