Walt Whitman, himself, reading "America"

Don't expect modern recording fidelity as this is recorded on an old wax cylinder in the 19th Century.

I appreciate better, having heard it, how Walt Whitman's poems should be read; viz., slowly and thoughtfully, pausing between each word, not unlike Allen Ginsberg read his poems which were often quite similar structurally.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20157

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15306