413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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Into the Valley of Death, a Road to 600
It's about the crimean war, the bravery of soldiers who are following bad orders without questioning them. Not though the soldier knew some one had blundered, theirs,. not to make reply theirs, not to reason why theirs, but to do and die. And so it goes. Into the valley of death rode the 600. I think that's enough to give you a taste of it.
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