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For remember that behind all

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  • Title: For remember that behind all
  • Date: Between 1845 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05334
  • Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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: Edward Grier notes that this scrap contains ideas similar to those found in what would become section 4 of the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself." But Grier also indicates that the manuscript could be notes for a lecture that Whitman was planning (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 6:2047). In either case, the manuscript likely dates to the 1850s.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "For remember that behind all." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 18 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.05334.xml (TEI)

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For remember that behind all this show of ostensible life, of every man and woman,—of you hearing me now in these talks, amusements, dress, money, politics, &c. stands the real life of every man and woman of you who hear me now

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