Oh Captain! My Captain!

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Robin Williams

1. 21 juli 1951 -  11 augusti 2014

"O Captain! My Captain!"  av Walt Whitman:

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered 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 ribboned 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 anchored 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.