March 15, 2007

Race of Veterans

Race of veterans – race of victors!
Race of the soil, ready for conflict – race of the conquering march!
(No more credulity’s race, abiding temper’d race,)
Race henceforth owning no law but the law itself,
Race of passion and the storm.

-Walt Whitman, 1871

By Good Lt. at 07:35 PM | |