To Those Who've Fail'd

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Title:     To Those Who've Fail'd
Author: Walt Whitman [More Titles by Whitman]

To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast,

To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,

To calm, devoted engineers--to over-ardent travelers--to pilots on their ships,

To many a lofty song and picture without recognition--I'd rear laurel-cover'd monument,

High, high above the rest--To all cut off before their time,

Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,

Quench'd by an early death.

[The end]
Walt Whitman's poem: To Those Who've Fail'd

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