Stone masons are scribing a quotation from Walt Whitman’s “The Wound Dresser” into the Q Street N.W. entrance of the Dupont Circle Metro station. The complete stanza reads:
Thus in silence, in dream’s projections,
Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hos-
pitals;
The hurt and the wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
I sit by the restless all the dark night—some are so
young;
Some suffer so much—I recall the experience sweet
and sad;
(Many a soldier’s loving arms about this neck have
cross’d and rested,
Many a soldier’s kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Update: Via a DCist comment thread, WMATA’s press release on the project.