...alth was lost, and the last twenty years of his life were those of a paralytic cripple. Whitman's poetic power was still at its height. Drum-Taps, —the poetic complement to and The Wound- Dresser ,—a booklet charged with the pathos and the spirituality of the war, was published in 1865, with the profoundly moving dirge for the martyred Lincoln. In (1871) he made use of prose, though w...