THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute

Walt Whitman
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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States. ✨ 'This dust was once the man'
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