The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner … - Walt Whitman

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The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son sleeps,
The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
And the murder’d person, how does he sleep?

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass · August 1, 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

the-dead sleep

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Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.

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