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WALT WHITMAN'S DRUM -TAPS. New-York. 1865.

SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS. (SINCE THE PRECEDING CAME FROM THE PRESS.) WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR-YARD BLOOM'D. AND OTHER PIECES.WASHINGTON. 1865-6.

CONTENTS.

WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR-YARD BLOOM'D.

RACE OF VETERANS.

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE.

CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC.

I HEARD YOU, SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES OF THE ORGAN.

NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME.

O ME! O LIFE!

AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS.

AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP, CAMERADO.

THIS DAY, O SOUL.

IN CLOUDS DESCENDING, IN MIDNIGHT SLEEP.

AN ARMY ON THE MARCH.

DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS.

HOW SOLEMN, AS ONE BY ONE.

LO! VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS!

RECONCILIATION.

TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD.

LEAVES OF GRASS. SONGS BEFORE PARTING.

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NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME.

NOT my enemies ever invade me — no harm to my pride from them I fear;
But the lovers I recklessly love — lo! how they master me!
Lo! me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength!
Utterly abject, grovelling on the ground before them.

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