O Hymen! O Hymenee!

by Walt Whitman.

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?

 

from Children of Adam: Leaves of Grass BOOK IV. by Walt Whitman
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd	I Am He That Aches with Love

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