Quotation by Walt Whitman

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I am given up by traitors,
I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.

You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
Unclench your floodgates, you are too much for me.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819–1892), U.S. poet. Song of Myself (Fr. XXVIII, l. 637–641). . .

The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.

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