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After an ^ the unsolv'd argument

        The ^ Coming in, a A group of little children, and their
        ways and chatter, flow in, upon me
        Like ^ welcome rippling water o'er my
        heated ^ nerves and flesh.
                                                Walt Whitman
Date
This manuscript was likely written in 1890 or early 1891, shortly before the poem's publication.
Editorial note
"After the Argument" was published first in Lippincott's Magazine, March, 1891.
The verso of the manuscript leaf is blank.
Location
After the Argument  |  The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Whitman Archive ID
loc.00001

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