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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles… — Walt Whitman

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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.

Walt Whitman
Song of Myself · 1855
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Topic
BattleFailureWinning and losing
Medium
Poem
Time
1855
Person
Walt Whitman
Provenance
Current citation
Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 18.
Original citation
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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