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Leaves of Grass

128-TWILIGHT

The soft voluptuous opiate shades,

The sun just gone, the eager light dispell’d—(I too will soon be gone, dispell’d,)

A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.

129-THE DEAD EMPEROR

To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, Columbia,

Less for the mighty crown laid low in sorrow—less for the Emperor,

Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o’er many a salt sea mile,

Mourning a good old man—a faithful shepherd, patriot.

130-THE DISMANTLED SHIP

In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,

On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor’d near the shore,

An old, dismasted, gray and batter’d ship, disabled, done,

After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul’d up at last and hawser’d tight,

Lies rusting, mouldering.

131-NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL

Now precedent songs, farewell—by every name farewell,

(Trains of a staggering line in many a strange procession, waggons,

From ups and downs—with intervals—from elder years, mid-age, or youth,)

“In Cabin’d Ships, or Thee Old Cause or Poets to Come

Or Paumanok, Song of Myself, Calamus, or Adam,

Or Beat! Beat! Drums! or To the Leaven’d Soil they Trod,

Or Captain! My Captain! Kosmos, Quicksand Years, or Thoughts,

Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood,” and many, many more unspecified,

From fibre heart of mine—from throat and tongue—(My life’s hot pulsing blood,

The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)

Each song of mine—each utterance in the past—having its long, long history,

Of life or death, or soldier’s wound, of country’s loss or safety,

(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! Compared indeed to that!

What wretched shred e’en at the best of all!)

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