When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever… - Walt Whitman

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When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,
And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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About Walt Whitman

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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"Da "Ahimè! Ah vita!"

Ahimè! Ah vita! di queste domande che ricorrono,
degli infiniti cortei di senza fede, di città piene di sciocchi,
di me stesso che sempre mi rimprovero, (perché chi più sciocco di me, e chi più senza fede?)
di occhi che invano bramano la luce, di meschini scopi, della battaglia sempre rinnovata,
dei poveri risultati di tutto, della folla che vedo sordida camminare a fatica attorno a me,
dei vuoti ed inutili anni degli altri, io con gli altri legato in tanti nodi,
la domanda, ahimè, la domanda così triste che ricorre - Cosa c'è di buono in tutto questo, ahimè, ah vita?

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Che tu sei qui - che esiste la vita e l'individuo, che il potete spettacolo continua, e tu puoi contribuirvi con un tuo verso."

"Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true soul and body appear before me,
They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying."

-from "To You"

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