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Monday, October 8, 2012

Anthems in New Tongues I Hear Saluting Me (Whitman/Dali) | biblioklept

Anthems in New Tongues I Hear Saluting Me (Whitman/Dali) | biblioklept
Excerpt:
Salvador Dalí, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
“Prayer of Columbus” by Walt Whitman
A batter’d, wreck’d old man,
Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,
Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken’d and nigh to death,
I take my way along the island’s edge,
Venting a heavy heart...

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