And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with             menacing points
And behind the weapons, countless dissatisfied faces...
I will acknowledge contemporary lands
I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously                     every city large and small,
And employments!  I will put in my poems that with you is heroism                     upon land and sea,
And I will report all heroism with an American point of view.

                                                   ~Walt Whitman
                                                     "Starting from Paumanok"   
                                                    Leaves of Grass