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What General has a Good Army

By Walt Whitman

 WHAT General has a good army in himself, has a good army; 
He happy in himself, or she happy in herself, is happy, 
But I tell you you cannot be happy by others, any more than you can beget or conceive a
 child
 by others.

Form: Free verse

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