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1819–1892

O Living Always, Always Dying

Walt Whitman

O living always, always dying! O the burials of me past and present, O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever; O me, what I was for years, now dead, ( I lament not, I am content;)

O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them, To pass on, ( O living! always living! ) and leave the corpses behind.

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