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[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]

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


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