O 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?         5

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Poet: Walt Whitman
Poem: 13. O Hymen! O Hymenee!
Volume: Leaves of Grass
- 2. Children of Adam
Year: Published/Written in 1900
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