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Hast never come to thee an hour

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  • Title: Hast never come to thee an hour
  • Date: Late 1870s or early 1880s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00058
  • Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. 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 features two drafts of "Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour," a poem published first in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The manuscript was likely written in the late 1870s or early 1880s.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Hast never come to thee an hour." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00058.xml (TEI)

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Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
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Hast never come to thee an hour

Hast never come to thee an hour, When The ^A sudden ^ penetrating gleam ^precipitating all——the ^phantasm, mockery of wealth? Of all these eager aims—these politics,  
  amours? The phantasm thou art making life? Hast never come to thee in life an one hour One A sudden ^strange unearthly gleam, precipitating, bursting all the phantasm these bubble  
 mockery ^ies? of wealth Of all tThese eager business aims? these these shows, amours—pol 
 itics, amours, fashions, wealth? Interpellation   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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