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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

211. Pensive and Faltering

PENSIVE and faltering,

The words, the dead, I write;

For living are the Dead;

(Haply the only living, only real,

And I the apparition—I the spectre.)