Red Jacket (From Aloft)

Walt Whitman * Track #288 On Leaves of Grass

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Album Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman

1855

Red Jacket (From Aloft) by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

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Whitman wrote this for the Buffalo Historical Society’s 1884 reburial of Red Jacket and other Six Nations leaders at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.

Red Jacket (From Aloft) Annotated

Upon this scene, this show,
Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,
(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)
Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,
As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul,
Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical
smile curving its phantom lips,
Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down.

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