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Leaves of Grass
1891
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Life and Death.
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LIFE AND DEATH.
The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,
Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.
By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,
To ours to-day—and we pass on the same.
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