[Man's physiology complete I sing.]

Whitman Archive Title: [Man's physiology complete I sing.]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04672
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1867
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript fragment, written in ink and heavily corrected in pencil, contributed to the poem that appeared on the frontispiece of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass under the title "Inscription." A revised and final version appeared in the 1871-72 edition, as the first poem of the "Inscriptions" cluster, with the title "One's-Self I Sing."