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Calamus 27

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

27.

O LOVE! O dying—always dying! O the burials of me, past and present! O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperi- 
 ous as ever!   [ begin page 370 ]ppp.01500.378.jpg 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!

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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