Pensive and Faltering


  Pensive and faltering,
  The words the Dead I write,
  For living are the Dead,
  (Haply the only living, only real,
  And I the apparition, I the spectre.)
by Walt Whitman
by Walt Whitman
Written around 1891. 68 reads.
Written by Walt Whitman, in the public domain.
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