sent H May 19 pub'd Life and Death | | The two old ^simple problems ever | For eEver intertwined | ^| ^Close home, Elusive, simple, present, baffled, grappled, foil'd baffled, | | For By [about two letters deleted, illegible] each successive age pass'd on | | insoluble, pass'd on, | | To ours to-day—and we pass on. the same |
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- Date
- This manuscript was probably composed in the spring of 1888 shortly before it was published.
- Editorial note
- This manuscript is a draft of "Life and Death," which was published first in the New York Herald, May 23, 1888.
- The verso of the manuscript leaf is blank.
- Location
- Life and Death | The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Whitman Archive ID
- loc.00213
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