Both Uses of
attest
in
Leaves of Grass
- I am he attesting sympathy, (Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?†
Chpt 3
- …In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored, To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North, To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs, To the Alleghanian hills and the tireless Mississippi, To the rocks I calling sing, and all the trees in the woods, To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide, To the far-off sea and the unseen winds,…†
Chpt 21 *
Definition:
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(attest) to provide evidence or verbally confirm that something is true