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Health does not tell any

  • Whitman Archive Title: Health does not tell any
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00789
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: Before or early in 1856
  • Genre: poetry, prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This prose manuscript includes the line "Which is the poem or any book that is not diseased?" which appeared in a slightly altered form in "Poem of Many in One" in 1856. The poem, eventually titled "By Blue Ontario's Shore," was retained through subsequent editions of Leaves , although the line was dropped after 1860–1861.
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