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Click hereBut the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health,
Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32 Angel Luis Candelario-Padro, 28 Frank Hernandez, 27 Paul Terrell Henry, 41
Refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 Stanley Almodovar III, 23 Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 Eric Ivan
When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
Ortiz Rivera, 36 Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 Luis S. Vielma, 22 Kimberly Morris, 37 Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30
When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 Anthony Luis Laureano Disla,
And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
25 Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 Amanda Alvear, 25 Martin Benitez Torres, 33
O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 Gilberto Ramon
And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend,
Silva Menendez, 25 Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31 Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 Javier
And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
Jorge-Reyes, 40 Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 Joey Rayon Paniagua, 32 Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 Cory James
I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
Connell, 21 Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 Luis Daniel Conde, 39 Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 Juan Chavez Martinez, 25
For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
Jerald Arthur Wright, 31 Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24
In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me,
Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33 Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49 Yilmary Rodriguez Sulivan, 24
And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
Antonio Davon Brown, 29 Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 Akyra Monet Murray, 18
Excerpt from Walt Whitman, the Calamus Poems,Leaves of Grass
Thank you for listing the names of the victims of the 'Pulse' shooting. I had not read the names before, but I did now. It is interesting to me that you accompanied it with the excerpt from 'Leaves of Grass'. I do not know why you did it that way, but I am often clueless of things like that. I shall read it again and try to solve my mystery. I certainly see the juxtaposition of the peacefuless and joy of Whitman's poem and the horror of that night in Orlando.
The play of light and dark, love and hate, life and death, past and present
RIP our loved ones