Stephen Vincent Benét 
John Brown’s Body [EPUB ebook] 

American muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand​But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land, As mountainous-deep, as flowered with blue rivers, Thirsty with deserts, buried under snows, As native as the shape of Navajo quivers, And native, too, as the sea-voyaged rose.