Death & Dying
O Living Always, Always Dying
From Leaves of Grass
Death & Dying
O living always, always dying!
O the burials of me past and present,
O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)
O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and
look at where I cast them,
To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.
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MLA
Whitman, Walt. “O Living Always, Always Dying.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/243/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “O Living Always, Always Dying.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/243/.
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