Living
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
From Leaves of Grass
Living
O tan-faced prairie-boy,
Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,
Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among
the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give--we but look’d on each other,
When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
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MLA
Whitman, Walt. “O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/172/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/172/.
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