To Steven VeShancey >; 32 WALT WHITMAN IN 1989 | Music 5 Text by = i pret . Recitativo: fa, oo = vit tempo ‘Walt Whitman has come down to. — ——,——~~. a = Moderato (¢ v - iS — tothe hos-pi-tal room; he rocks back and forth _ in the cri Ay =< i a says iS good we have-n't lost our close - ness ~ and ‘© Copytight 1990 by Chris DeBlasio, VAB303 7 ‘Pine in US "Walt Whitman in 1989 ‘sed by permission of the author Perry Brass, 7| | 33 He has writ-ten man-y — lines a bout these years: mo mp ST i —— fig-ure-ment of young men and the wars of hard tongues and closed minds. ea "2 .s 4 — = i — = — .— mf —=— E i bo-dy in pain words have the edge of poi - son when spok- en bit-ter-ly,34. pitt mosso Now he takes a dy-ing ‘an in his arms and that takes the old man and his friends this eve - ning. — ——— and Ja-men-ta - ‘VAB303,