To A Western Boy by Walt Whitman

To A Western Boy

O boy of the West!
To you many things to absorb, I teach,
to help you become eleve of mine:
Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins;
If you be not silently selected by lovers,
and do not silently select lovers,
Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?

Walt Whitman
(1819 – 1892)
To A Western Boy

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