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...love — but praise ! praise ! praise ! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. " Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none...that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly." Towards the close of the war Whitman contracted bloodpoisoning in the hospital, and thus, at 45 years...