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A Dedication
(Excerpts from Walt Whitman's Carol of Occupations, Leaves of Grass.)

"The daily routine of your or any man's life -- the shop, yard, store, or factory;
   "These shows all near you by day and night -- workmen! whoever you are, your daily life!"

 

"In that and them the heft of the heaviest -- in them far more than you estimated, and far less also;
   "In them realities for you and me -- in them poems for you and me;
   "In them, not yourself -- you and your Soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation;
   "In them the development good -- in them, all themes and hints."

 

"I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile -- I do advise you to stop;
   "I do not say leadings you thought great are not great;
   "But I say that none lead to greater, than those lead to."

 

"Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  "In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best,
   "In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest;
   "Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but in this place -- not for another hour, but this hour;"

 

"Man in the first you see or touch -- always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor -- Woman and mover, lover, wife;"

 

"The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
   "You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
   "And all else giving place to men and women like you."
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Photos by John Monroe, National Park Service.
Poem by Walt Whitman.

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