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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 299 of 382 · Sands at Seventy

The Bravest Soldiers

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Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight; But the bravest press’d to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.

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