Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies
 of the sea,
 His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with
 courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
 I see his white body, I see his undaunted eyes,
 I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on
 the rocks.
 
 What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?
 Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime
 of his middle age?
 
 Steady and long he struggles,
 He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength
 holds out,
 The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away,
 they roll him, swing him, turn him,
 His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies, it is
 continually bruis'd on rocks,
 Swiftly and ought of sight is borne the brave corpse.