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Quotation from O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
“Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead.”
O Captain! My Captain!, Stanza 2, lines 13-16 (Leaves of Grass, deathbed edition (1891-92))
Cradling the captain's head, the sailor calls him father and clings to the hope that the death is not real.
Citation: "Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead." — Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!, Stanza 2, lines 13-16 (Leaves of Grass, deathbed edition (1891-92)). (id o-captain-my-captain-q3)
Virtues: Piety
Portrait: Ocaptain, Walt Whitman, Public domain.
