O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
1819 to 1892
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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
______ ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought ______ won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, ______ people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, ______ vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
______ the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck ______ Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you ______ flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you ______ and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you ______ call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is ______ dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale ______ still,
My father does not feel my arm, he ______ no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe ______ sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip ______ victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
______ the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.