by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Language: English 
World, take good notice, silver stars fading,
Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,
Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,
Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,
Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.

Composition:

    Set to music by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "World, take good notice", c1942, published 1942 [ baritone or alto and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 6, published in the January edition of New Music

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Word count: 31