What Place is Besieged?

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

Leaves of Grass (1882) — Inscriptions

What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.

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