Poem

O Tan-faced Prairie Boy

Walt Whitman
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy! Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift; Praises and presents came, and nourishing food--till at last, among the recruits, You came, taciturn, with nothing to give--we but look'd on each other, When lo! more than all the gifts of the world, you gave me.

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