| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7403 |
| AUTHOR: | Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| QUOTATION: | O Banner!
Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Walt Whitman Collection. |
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