When I Read the Book
by Walt Whitman
· 1867
Published 01/07/1867
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous;
And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's life?
And so will some one, when I am dead and gone, write my life?
(As if any man really knew aught of my life;
As if you, O cunning Soul, did not keep your secret well!)