What Place Is Besieged?

Walt Whitman

   WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
   Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal;
   And with him horse and foot--and parks of artillery,
   And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.

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