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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 252 of 382 · Whispers of Heavenly Death

Pensive and Faltering

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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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