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First Line: Of him I love day and night, I dream'd I heard he was dead
Last Line: Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied.


Of him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but
he was not in that place,
And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
And I found that every place was a burial-place;
The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this
house is now,)
The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the
Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as
full of the dead as of the living,
And fuller, O vastly fuller of the dead than of the living;
And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd,
And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and
dispense with them,
And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently
everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I
should be satisfied,
And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse,
be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I
shall be satisfied,
Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied.





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