Leaves of Grass (1881-82)


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PENSIVE AND FALTERING.

PENSIVE and faltering,
The words the Dead I write,
For living are the Dead,
(Haply the only living, only real,
         And I the apparition, I the spectre.)
 
 
 
 
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