by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
A song of the good green grass!
Language: English
A song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms -- a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk’d maize.
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Confirmed with Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Philadelphia: David McKay, c1900.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Leaves of Grass, in A Carol of Harvest, for 1867, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-04-18
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Word count: 51