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1819–1892

Lingering Last Drops

Walt Whitman

And whence and why come you? We know not whence, ( was the answer,) We only know that we drift here with the rest, That we linger'd and lagg'd — but were wafted at last, and are now here,

To make the passing shower's concluding drops.

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