Monday, September 16, 2013

Walt Whitman: I DREAMED IN A DREAM (1860)

I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the 
         attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; 
I dream'd that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust 
         love—it led the rest; 
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of 
         that city,
And in all their looks and words.

Walt Whitman (1860)

Today's Rune:  Movement. 

3 comments:

Erik Donald France said...

Picture credit: View of Washington looking down Pennsylvania Ave. toward unfinished Capitol. National Hotel on left, no. 2 (1860) -- US Library of Congress.

Charles Gramlich said...

Such a city would be worth founding.

jodi said...

Erik, don't we all wish our city was like that? Old Walt was pretty cool!