Lingering Last Drops

Composed by Ernst Bacon
Text by Walt Whitman
"Lingering Last Drops" is one of Ernst Bacon's Walt Whitman settings.

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by Walt Whitman

AND whence and why come you?
We know not whence, (was the answer,)
We only know that we drift here with the rest,
That we linger’d and lagg’d—but were wafted at last, and are
now here,
To make the passing shower’s concluding drops.

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