object:1.whitman - To One Shortly To Die
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
You are to dieLet others tell you what they please, I cannot
prevaricate,
I am exact and merciless, but I love youThere is no escape for you.
Softly I lay my right hand upon youyou just feel it,
I do not argueI bend my head close, and half envelope it,
I sit quietly byI remain faithful,
I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,
I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritual, bodilythat is
eternalyou yourself will surely escape,
The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.
The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions!
Strong thoughts fill you, and confidenceyou smile!
You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
You do not see the medicinesyou do not mind the weeping friendsI
am with you,
I exclude others from youthere is nothing to be commiserated,
I do not commiserateI congratulate you.
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