Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

 A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
 As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
 As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
 Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,
 Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,
 Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
 
 Curious I halt and silent stand,
 Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first
 just lift the blanket;
 Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair,
 and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
 Who are you my dear comrade?
 Then to the second I step--and who are you my child and darling?
 Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
 Then to the third--a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of
 beautiful yellow-white ivory;
 Young man I think I know you--I think this face is the face of the
 Christ himself,
 Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.