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Photographer: Devry Becker Jones (CC0)
Taken: December 18, 2021
Caption: Prayer of Columbus panel of the piece
Additional Description:

Prayer of Columbus
......
All my emprises have been fill'd with thee
My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thought at Thee.
Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee:
Intentions, purpors, aspirations mine, leaving results to Thee.

O I am sure they really came from Thee,
The urge, the ardor, the unconquerable will,
The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words,
A message from the Heavens whispering to me even in sleep,
These sped me on.

By me and these the work so far accomplish'd,
By me earth's cloy'd and stifled lands, uncloy'd, unloos'd,
By me the hemispheres rounded and tied, the unknown to the known.

Walt Whitman

Submitted: December 18, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p628687
File Size: 4.904 Megabytes

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