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Song of Myself

...pass to the one we
 have conquer’d;
The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance
 white as a sheet; 
Near by, the corpse of the child that serv’d in the cabin; 
The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curl’d
 whiskers; 
The flames, spite of all that can be done, flickering aloft and below; 
The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty;
Formless stacks of bodies, and bodies by themselves—dabs...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt

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