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THE PRAIRIE STATES by WALT WHITMAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: A NEWER GARDEN OF CREATION, NO PRIMAL SOLITUDE
Last Line: TO JUSTIFY THE PAST.
Subject(s): MIDDLE WEST; MIDWEST; OLD NORTHWEST; CENTRAL STATES; NORTH CENTRAL STATES;
A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
By all the world contributed -- freedom's and law's and
thrift's society,
The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations,
To justify the past.



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