With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.… - Walt Whitman

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit
in which they are won.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall... battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won,

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall,
Battles are lost in the same spirit
In which they are won

I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars...

am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone; I am to wait — I do not doubt I am to meet you again; I am to see to it that I do not lose you.