You can Hear Whitman?!

Since I've been doing so much Whitman lately, I figured I might as well share something really cool I found at the Walt Whitman Archive. It's a wax cylinder of a few lines from his poem, "America". Nobody really knows for certain whether it is his voice, but many have found it to be his. If so, his reading is with much feeling. I personally enjoy his "Ample" in the way that he says it.

Anyways, here's a sample of the part he is reading, because the cylinder is a little hard to hear in parts:

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,

All, all alike endear'd , grown, un grown, young or old,

Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,

Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love.