I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me,
This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country-I now go back there,
I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn." (Walt Whitman)

I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country-I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."

Walt Whitman

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