ash-streak'd

Updated: May 19, 2025

Can those be men those little livid brown, ash-streak'd, monkey-looking dwarfs? are they really not mummied, dwindled corpses? It steeps its perpetrators in blackest, escapeless, endless damnation. The dead there are not to be pitied as much as some of the living that come from there if they can be call' d living many of them are mentally imbecile, and will never recuperate.

Walt Whitman - Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy