Walt Whitman

	Walt(er) Whitman - american poet born: 31-May-1819, Huntington, LI, USA died: 26-Mar-1892, Camden, NJ, USA

The song Passing Stranger from the album with the same title is based on the poem To a Stranger by american writer Walt Whitman. It was first published in 1860 and is one of many from his breakthrough book Leaves of Grass (german: Grashalme) published 1900.

To a Stranger

PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me,
      as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate,
      chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me, or a girl with me,
I ate with you, and slept with you--your body has become not yours
      only, nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass--you
      take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you--I am to think of you when I sit alone, or
      wake at night alone,
I am to wait--I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

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