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You lusty and graceflu youth

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  • Title: You lusty and graceflu youth
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00032
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This manuscript was likely written between 1850 and 1855 when Whitman was composing his first edition of Leaves of Grass. It is a partial draft of the final poem in that edition, which in later editions would be titled "Great Are the Myths."
  • Related Item(s):
    • On the back of the leaf are drafts of lines that appeared in the third poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately called "To Think of Time." See duk.00889.
    • See wwa.00011.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "You lusty and graceflu youth." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00032.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] Great are you, You lusty and loving graceflu​ youth! but  
 you are great  
  you are not exclusively great, in youth.— graceful  
  and fascinating youth; Your Middle age comes shall be great with its amplitude  
 and [illegible] steadiness and ma  
  allmastering the fullblooded strength Your old age come with shall be equally great shall have with  
  resistless majesty and bloom and  
 fascination and love,   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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