Both Uses of
envoy
in
Leaves of Grass
- A Broadway Pageant
1
Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come,
Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,
Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,
Ride to-day through Manhattan.†Chpt 18 *envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,
Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself
appears, the past, the dead,
The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable,
The envelop'd mysteries, the old and unknown hive-bees,
The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the
ancient of ancients,
Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more
are in the pageant-procession.†Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(envoy) a representative sent on a mission -- often representing a government
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, envoy can reference a specific level of minister in the UK or a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.