I thought so; glad you do, too. Whitman somehow slipped my mind when I made my earlier comments about poets. He came to my attention last year, when I performed Vaughn Williams's "Dona Nobis Pacem", which is a setting of several of Whitman's Civil War poems, including this one. Quite the experience. Singing a setting of Beat! Beat! Drums! in Spring 2004 was both moving and chilling.
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