Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 39. 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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