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by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Dear Camerado
Language: English 
As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado,
The confession I made I resume -- what I said to you in the open air I resume:
I know I am restless, and make others so;
I know my words are weapons, full of danger, full of death;
For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them;
I am more resolute because all have denied me, than I could ever 
  have been had all accepted me;
I heed not, and have never heeded eiher experience, cautions, majorities, or ridicule;
And the threat of what is called hell is little or nothing to me;
And the lure of what is called heaven is little or nothing to me;
Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you,
   without the least idea what is our destination,
Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quelled and defeated. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "Dear Camerado", first performed 2006 [duet for 2 counter-tenors and piano], from We Two, no. 1. [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-10-24
Line count: 13
Word count: 155

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