by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
A tender camp lyric: a silent prairie-boy recruit who gives nothing but a look worth more than all the gifts of the world; comradeship and tenderness between soldiers.
Connections
Motifs: Eyes and Sight Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Divine Love Forms & Genres: Fragment Settings: Military Camp
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: DRUM-TAPS
O tan-faced prairie-boy,
Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,
Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among
the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look’d on each other,
When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.