Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

by Walt Whitman · 1900 · Life & Death
Youth, large, lusty, loving--youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace,
force, fascination?
,
Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action,
ambition, laughter,
The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and
restoring darkness.

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American poet, essayist, and journalist. His work was controversial in its time for its overt sensuality and celebration of the human form.

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