StoryTitle("caps", "O Captain, My Captain! ") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", "by Walt Whitman") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But O heart! heart! heart!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "O the bleeding drops of red,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where on the deck my Captain lies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Fallen cold and dead.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Here Captain! dear father!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "This arm beneath your head!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is some dream that on the deck,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "You've fallen cold and dead.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Exult O shores, and ring O bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But I with mournful tread,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Walk the deck my Captain lies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Fallen cold and dead.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>