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demure  ·  3760 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Robin Williams dead at 63

Remembering the Captain:

  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. 
- excerpt, O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman (Mr Williams as Mr Keating in Dead Poet's Society)