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Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's

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  • Title: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's
  • Date: February 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00011
  • Source: Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 40 (February 1890): 553. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Heather Morton Leslie Ianno Ramon Guerra Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 12 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00011.xml (TEI)
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OLD AGE'S SHIP AND CRAFTY DEATH'S.1

FROM east and west across the horizon's edge, Two mighty masterful vessels, sailers, steal upon us: But we'll make race a-time upon the seas—a battle-contest yet! bear lively there! (Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!) Put on the old ship all her power to-day! Crowd extra top-gallants and royal studding-sails! Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added, As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters. Walt Whitman.

Notes

1. Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [back]

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