Quote of the Day (Walt Whitman, on ‘Lands To Be Welded Together’)

“Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,
The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
The lands to be welded together.” — American poet and editor Walt Whitman (1819-1892), “Passage to India” (1871)