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After The Supper And Talk |
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Title: After The Supper And Talk Author: Walt Whitman [More Titles by Whitman] After the supper and talk--after the day is done, As a friend from friends his final withdrawal prolonging, Good-bye and Good-bye with emotional lips repeating, No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young, A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,) Something to eke out a minute additional--shadows of nightfall deepening, Farewells, messages lessening--dimmer the forthgoer's visage and form, Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness--loth, O so loth to depart! Garrulous to the very last. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |