Sands at Seventy - Paumanok

Walt Whitman

Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!
  One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce,
      steamers, sails,
  And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle--mighty hulls
      dark-gliding in the distance.
  Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water--healthy air and soil!
  Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

Huntington on Long Island (originally known as Paumanok by Native Americans) was Walt Whitman's birthplace.


Main Location:

Long Island, USA - Long Island