In this elegy to Abraham Lincoln, Whitman depicts a ship's crew celebrating the successful completion of their voyage, while the narrator expresses bittersweet emotion at the ship captain's death.
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AUTHOR(S) OF - O Captain! My Captain! [from Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps]
