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Quotation from O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
“My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,”
O Captain! My Captain!, Stanza 3, lines 17-18 (Leaves of Grass, deathbed edition (1891-92))
The plea gives way to plain recognition of death, observed in pale lips and an absent pulse.
Citation: "My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will," — Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!, Stanza 3, lines 17-18 (Leaves of Grass, deathbed edition (1891-92)). (id o-captain-my-captain-q4)
Portrait: Ocaptain, Walt Whitman, Public domain.
