O Hymen! O Hymenee!


  O hymen! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?
  O why sting me for a swift moment only?
  Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
  Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would
      soon certainly kill me?
by Walt Whitman
by Walt Whitman
Written around 1891. 53 reads.
Written by Walt Whitman, in the public domain.
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