Life and Death

by Walt Whitman · 1891-1892
Published 01/07/1891

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.

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