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hands are cut by the

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  • Title: hands are cut by the
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00905
  • 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: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The manuscript includes draft lines that appeared in a revised form in the sixth poem of that edition, eventually titled "Faces."
  • Related Item(s):
    • Written on the back of this leaf is another poetry draft that contributed to poems in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. See duk.00264.
    • See tex.00321.
    • See tex.00079.
    • See wwa.00196.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "hands are cut by the." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00905.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] The teeth grit [cut away] palms of the  
 hands are cut by the naturned in nails St He It ^The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground,  
 though he begs and barters there.— so cooly.— I remember when I visited the Asylum and they  
 showed me their most smeared and slobbering  
 idiot, Yet I knew for my for my consolation, of the great  
 laws that emptied and broke my my brothers [cut away]   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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