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I. Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air   Starry, like Berenice's Hair   Afloat in broadened bravery there; With undulating long drawn flow, As rolled Brazilian billows go Voluminously o'er the Line. ONE WHERE THE WINGS OF SUNNY DOME EXPAND I SAW A BANNER AND GLADSOME AIR STARRY LIKE BARONESS HAIR AFLOAT IN BROADENED BRAVERY THERE WITH UNDULATING LAWN DRAWN FLOW AS ROLLED BRAZILIAN BILLOWS GO VOLUMINOUSLY O'ER THE LINE
, Each would slay his Python--caught The maxims in his temple taught-- Aflame with sympathies whose blaze Perforce enwrapped him--social laws, Friendship and kin, and by-gone days-- Vows, kisses--every heart unmoors, And launches into the seas of wars. What could they else--North or South? Each went forth with blessings given By priests and mothers in the name of Heaven; And honor in both was chief. Warred one for Right, and one for Wrong? So be it; but they both were young-- Each grape to his cluster clung, All their elegies are sung. The anguish of maternal hearts Must search for balm divine; But well the striplings bore their fated parts (The heavens all parts assign)-- Never felt life’s care or cloy. Each bloomed and died an unabated Boy; Nor dreamed what death was--thought it mere Sliding into some vernal sphere. They knew the joy, but leaped the grief, Like plants that flower ere comes the leaf-- Which storms lay low in kindly doom, And kill them in their flush of bloom. America.  AMERICA BY HERMAN MELVILLE READ FOR LIEBERVOCK STOT ORG BY JONATHAN BRYAN AT CLARK UNIVERSITY RECORDED NOVEMBER OF TWO THOUSAND TWELVE WORD PRESS DOT CLARK EW DOT E D U SLASH M E N E U M A N SLASH LIEBERVOX
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