<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=36899" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To One Shortly to Die</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,<br>You are to die--let others tell you what they please, I cannot<br>prevaricate,<br>I am exact and merciless, but I love you--there is no escape for you.<br>Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you 'ust feel it,<br>I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,<br>I sit quietly by, I remain faithful,<br>I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,<br>I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is<br>eternal, you yourself will surely escape,<br>The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.<br>The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions,<br>Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,<br>You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,<br>You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends,<br>I am with you,<br>I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated,<br>I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=36899" data-title="To One Shortly to Die de Walt Whitman" data-description="From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,/You are to die--let others tell you what they please, I cannot/prevaricate,/I am exact and merciless, but I love you--there is no escape for you./Softly I lay my right hand upon you, yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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