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MP3 Audio CD. Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4 4 Muscle and pluck forever! What invigorates life invigorates death, And the dead advance as much as the living advance, And the future is no more uncertain than the present, For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man, And nothing endures but personal qualities. What do you think endures? Do you think a great city endures? Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships? Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'oeuvres of engineering, forts, armaments? Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them, The show passes, all does well enough of course, All does very well till one flash of defiance. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Song of the Broad-Axe by Whitman, Walt - 2020
by Whitman, Walt
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Song of the Broad-Axe
by Whitman, Walt
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(Buxton, ME): Ascensius Press, 2020. Pixley, Lisa. Folio. (23)pp. One of twenty-six copies, this being one of the six of the deluxe edition. Frontispiece monoprint of a looming axe by Pixley. A warm edition, with numbers in brown and borders at head in gray and green, reflective of the familiar vigor of Whitman's verses. Bound by Gray Parrot in quarter cloth with decorated paper boards. Housed in a clamshell box, which also contains a bronze relief, "Eagle," cast by Thomas Cornell in 1968. Fine.
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- Publisher Ascensius Press
- Place of Publication (Buxton, ME)
- Date Published 2020
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Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4
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MP3 Audio CD. Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4 4 Muscle and pluck forever! What invigorates life invigorates death, And the dead advance as much as the living advance, And the future is no more uncertain than the present, For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man, And nothing endures but personal qualities. What do you think endures? Do you think a great city endures? Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships? Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'oeuvres of engineering, forts, armaments? Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them, The show passes, all does well enough of course, All does very well till one flash of defiance. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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Song of the Broad-Axe
by Walt Whitman
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Bar Mills, Maine: The Ascensius Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. new. New copy: one of 20 copies bound in quarter leather by Gray Parrot. This is copy O, thus without the extra medalion and case found with the first six copies. Printed in 13.5 point Monotype Fournier on a gorgeous Hahnemühle Gutenberg paper. Beautiful fine press work.
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