Poem/story the soldier tolds
Does anyone know the poem or story Pip's grandfather tells to the other soldier?
I found it touching but don't know it.
Thank you!
It's "We Two Boys Together Clinging" from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass:
We two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.
Thank you very much, WendeIIE! :)
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