A Christmas Greeting by Walt Whitman
A Christmas Greeting by Walt Whitman

A Christmas Greeting

Walt Whitman * Track #339 On Leaves of Grass

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A Christmas Greeting by Walt Whitman

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A referência fundamental faltou ao poema – depois do título (o primeiro verso é antecedido pela frase entre parêntesis – “From a Northern Star-Group to a Shoutern, 1889-90). Portanto, a referência de Whitman ao fato histórico da declaração da República do Brasil está explícito, no que é sua (dele, W...

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A Christmas Greeting Annotated

Welcome, Brazilian brother—thy ample place is ready;
A loving hand—a smile from the north—a sunny instant hall!
(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles,
impedimentas,
Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and
the faith;)
To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us
the expectant eye,
Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning well,
The true lesson of a nation's light in the sky,
(More shining than the Cross, more than the Crown,)
The height to be superb humanity.

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