Of Him I Love Day and Night

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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; And I dream'd I wander'd, searching among burial-
places, to find him; And I found that every place was a burial-place; The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this
house is now;) The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement,
the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Manna-
hatta, were as full of the dead as of the living, 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; And if the memorials of the dead were put up indif-
ferently everywhere, even in the room where I
eat or sleep, I should be satisfied; 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; Or if it be distributed to the winds, I shall be sat-
isfied.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.