[I can tell of the long besieged city]

Whitman Archive Title: [I can tell of the long besieged city]
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00511
Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
Repository Title: I can tell of the long besieged city
Date: 1845–1855
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A scrap of paper with poetic lines that were used in revised form in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass . The lines contained in this manuscript were eventually used in the poem ultimately titled "Song of Myself." On the verso of this scrap is a prose fragment with no known connection to Whitman's published work.