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LIFE AND DEATH by WALT WHITMAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE TWO OLD, SIMPLE PROBLEMS EVER INTERTWINED
Last Line: TO OURS TO-DAY -- AND WE PASS ON THE SAME.
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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