FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE POETRY FILE “If I Should Need to Name, O Western World” (1884). Printed Copy—Camden Post, Oct. 28, 1884. Box 27 Folder 22 Includes A.MS. notation. [*Post Oct 28 '84*] The Post Office If I Should Need to Name, O Western World. (Walt Whitman in Phila. Press.) If I should need to name, O Western World! your powerfulest scene to-day, 'Twould not be you,Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's stream: —This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice preparing —America's choosing day, (The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing.) The stretch of North and South arous'd—seaboard and inland—Texas to Maine, The Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California, The final ballot-shower from East to West— the paradox and conflict, The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict, Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross, the scene's debris : —Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows: These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships, Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails. Professional Cards. WALTER P. BLACKWOOD, ATtorney -at-law, offices No. 207 Market St. Camden, and Moorestown, N.J. LOUIS HATTON, M.D., HAS, REsumed practice in Camden, and has located at No. 442 Broadway. DR. C.P. TUTTLE, DENTIS T, 308 South Fifth St., Camden. DR. A. IRWIN, DENTIST, 425 COOPER STREET. GEO. R. FORTINER, M. D., 542 Federal Street. Office hours from 7 to 9 A.M., 12 to 3 P.M., and 6 to 7:30 P. M. Telephone No. 165. JNO. F. HARNED, Law Offices, 317 Market st. Collections promptly attended to. JOHN J. WALSH, ATTORNEY- at-Law, Office, 126 Market street, Camden, N.J. BERGEN & BERGEN, ATTORneys -at-Law. 110 Market St. ALFRED FLANDERS, COUNSELlor at Law, No. 219 Market Street, second floor. United States and Supreme Court Commissioner. Master in Chancery and Notary Public. Practices in all the Courts. IDA F. FORTINER, M. D., 542 Federal Street, Camden, N.J. Special attention given to the Diseases of Women and Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.