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Title: Life and Death
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: May 23, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: per.00123
Source: New York Herald 23 May 1888: 6. 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, and Susan Belasco
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[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]
LIFE AND DEATH.1
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.
WALT WHITMAN.