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Helen Vendler claimed that this poem’s author silenced “his own idiosyncratic voice” in it. This three-verse poem was its author’s only one to be anthologized during his life and appears second in a “Hymn” section of the collection Passage to India. This poem repeats the words “for you” in a verse that describes “bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths” (20[1])and a “swaying mass” with “eager (20[1])faces turning” (20[1])towards its (20[1])subject. (20[1])This poem, which was first collected in Sequel to (*) Drum-Taps, (10[1])describes “the (10[1])people all exulting” (10[2])because “the prize we sought (10[1])is won.” (10[2])This (10[2])poem’s (10[1])subject lies (10[1])“on the deck” (10[1])after (10[1])having “fallen cold (10[2])and dead.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[2])name this Walt Whitman poem on the death (10[1])of Abraham Lincoln (10[2])which analogizes him to the leader (10[1])of a ship. (10[1])■END■ (10[7])

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