Life and Death
1819-1892
The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,
Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.
By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,
To ours to-day--and we pass on the same.
DayPoems Poem No. 2205
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2205.html">Life and Death by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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