The Walt Whitman Archive
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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, imperi-
ous as ever!
ous as ever!
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not
—I am content;)
—I am content;)
O to disengage myself from those corpses of me,
which I turn and look at, where I cast them!
which I turn and look at, where I cast them!
To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the
corpses behind!
corpses behind!