Whitman Walt
Song of Myself: 35
Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?
Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
List to the yarn, as my grandmother’s father the sailor told it to me.
Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
Along the lower’d eve he came horribly raking us.
We closed with him, the yards entangled, the cannon touch’d,
My captain lash’d fast with his own hands.
We had receiv’d some eighteen pound shots under the water,
On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
Fighting at sun-down, fighting at dark,
Ten o’clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,
They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
Our frigate takes fire,
The other asks if we demand quarter?
If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,
We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
Only three guns are in use,
One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy’s mainmast,
Two well serv’d with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.
The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,
They hold out bravely during the whole of the action.
Not a moment’s cease,
The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.
One of the pumps has been shot away, it is generally thought we are sinking.
Serene stands the little captain,
He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.
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O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
”’¡Oh Capitán! ¡Mi Capitán!”’
I
¡Oh Capitán! ¡Mi capitán! Nuestro espantoso viaje ha concluido;
El barco ha enfrentado cada tormento, el premio que buscamos fue ganado;
El puerto está cerca, las campanas oigo, toda la gente regocijada,
Mientras los ojos siguen la firme quilla de la severa y osada nave:
Pero ¡oh corazón! ¡Corazón! ¡Corazón!
Oh las sangrantes gotas rojas,
Cuando en la cubierta yace mi Capitán
Caído, frío y muerto.
II
¡Oh Capitán! ¡Mi capitán! Levántate y escucha las campanas;
Levántate —por ti se ha arriado la bandera— por ti trinan los clarines;
Por ti ramos y coronas con cintas— por ti una multitud en las riberas;
Por ti ellos claman, el oscilante gentío, sus ansiosos rostros a ti se vuelven;
¡Arriba Capitán! ¡Querido padre!
Este brazo bajo tu cabeza;
Es tan sólo un sueño aquél en la cubierta,
Tú has caído frío y muerto.
III
Mi Capitán no responde, sus labios están pálidos y quietos;
Mi padre no siente mi brazo, no tiene pulso ni voluntad;
El barco se encuentra anclado sano y salvo, su viaje concluido y terminado;
De una horrorosa travesía, el barco vencedor, viene con un objeto conquistado;
¡Regocíjense, oh riberas y repiquen, oh campanas!
Pero yo, con lúgubre andar
Camino la cubierta donde yace mi Capitán,
Caído, frío y muerto.
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