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[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]
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.
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.
WALT WHITMAN.
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Publication Information
"Life and Death."
New York Herald
23 May 1888:
6.
Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).
Whitman Archive ID
per.00123