Poet spoke with voice of the common man
When Walt Whitman heard his brother was wounded in the Civil War he rushed to his side and saw the suffering that war had brought to many ordinary men
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Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/troy-lennon/page/8