O HYMEN! O HYMENEE

by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

      HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?
      O why sting me for a swift moment only?
      Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
      Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?

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