OF him I love day and night, I dream'd I heard he was dead;
 And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love--but he was not
 in that place;
 And I dream'd I wander'd, searching among burial-places, to find him;
 And I found that every place was a burial-place;
 The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is
 now;)
 The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago,
 Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the dead
 as of the living,
 And fuller, O vastly fuller, of the dead than of the living;
 --And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
 And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd;
 And now I am willing to disregard burial-places, and dispense with
 them; 10
 And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently
 everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be
 satisfied;
 And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly
 render'd to powder, and pour'd in the sea, I shall be
 satisfied;
 Or if it be distributed to the winds, I shall be satisfied.