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Written by John Button

Category: Life

Published: March 14 2018

Last Updated: January 01 2023

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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Written in 1865. Included in Leaves of Grass, published in 1867. 
The poem is about the death of American President Abraham Lincoln.

O Captain! My Captain!

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

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