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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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OF HIM I LOVE DAY AND NIGHT.
OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead, |
And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he
was not in that place,
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And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find
him,
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And I found that every place was a burial-place; |
The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is
now,)
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The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago,
Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the
dead as of the living,
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And fuller, O vastly fuller of the dead than of the living; |
And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age, |
And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd, |
And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense
with them,
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And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently every-
where, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be
satisfied,
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And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be
duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I
shall be
satisfied,
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Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied. |
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