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OLD AGE'S SHIP AND CRAFTY DEATH'S.
FROM east and west across the horizon's edge,Two mighty masterful vessels, sailers, steal upon us:
But we'll make race a-time upon the seas—a battle-contest yet! bear lively there!
(Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!)
Put on the old ship all her power to-day!
Crowd extra top-gallants and royal studding-sails!
Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added,
As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.
Walt Whitman.
Publication Information
"Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's."
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
40 (February 1890):
553.
Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
Whitman Archive ID
per.00011