Thanks—joyful thanks—a soldier’s, traveller’s thanks.
Walt Whitman.
January, 1888.
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Now for the Parodies. The first is taken From Once a Week of twenty years ago, it is prefaced by the satirical announcement:—
“The following is supposed to be an original poem by Whitman:
I am Walt Whitman.
You are an idiot,
O, intellectual ingurtilations of creeds!
To such I am antiseptic.