cankerseed

Updated: May 6, 2025

But for the cause it is a singular story, to which let crusted worldlings pay the tribute of a light laugh light and empty as their own hollow hearts. Love! which with its cankerseed of decay within, has sent young men and maidens to a long'd-for, but too premature burial.

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