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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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O LIVING ALWAYS—ALWAYS DYING.
| O LIVING always—always dying! |
| O the burials of me past and present! |
O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious
as ever!
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O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not,—
I am content;)
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O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which
I turn and look at where I cast them!
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To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the
corpses behind!
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