Lingering Last Drops
1819-1892
And whence and why come you?
We know not whence, (was the answer,)
We only know that we drift here with the rest,
That we linger'd and lagg'd--but were wafted at last, and are now here,
To make the passing shower's concluding drops.
DayPoems Poem No. 2225
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2225.html">Lingering Last Drops by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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