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Whitman Archive Title: [sea—cabbage]
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Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00093
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Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
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Repository Title: sea-cabbage
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Date: 1855—1860
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A list of words and notes, mostly related to the sea. The last line of this manuscript is similar to a line Whitman used in "Miracles." Compare the draft line, "sound of walking barefoot ankle deep in the edge of the water," with the published line, "or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water." "Miracles" first appeared in the 1856 edition of
Leaves of Grass
under the title, "Poem of Perfect Miracles."
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