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Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884

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The Power of Nature

Whitman has an interesting take on the chaos surrounding and leading up to the presidential election of November 1884. He begins with a litany of the great natural wonders of the North American continent. The most powerful thing you can behold in this continent or in this hemisphere is a human thing, he says.

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