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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

146. World, Take Good Notice

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading,

Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,

Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,

Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,

Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.