What Place Is Besieged?


  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.
by Walt Whitman
by Walt Whitman
Written around 1891. 72 reads.
Written by Walt Whitman, in the public domain.
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