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Others may Praise what They Like

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Others may Praise what They Like by Walt Whitman

 OTHERS may praise what they like; 
But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing, in art, or aught else, 
Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river—also the western prairie-scent,

And fully exudes it again.

Form: Free verse

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