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In the garden

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  • Title: In the garden
  • Date: Late 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00583
  • 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 is a draft of a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as number 1 in the cluster "Enfans d'Adam." It was likely written in the late 1850s.
  • Related Item(s):
    • On the back of this leaf is a draft of the poem "City of Orgies," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as "Calamus" No. 18. See uva.00023.
    • See wwa.00145.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "In the garden." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00583.xml (TEI)

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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] In a the garden, the world, I, a new Adam,  
 again wander, Curious, here behold my resurrection  
 after ages of dea slumber, The revolving mighty cycles, in their mighty wide  
 sweep, have again brought  
 me.—I have returned return, for  
  awhile, the same, All is beautiful to me—all is  
 wondrous—I am myself  
 most wondrous, The All is I have con The I exist, I peer and  
 penetrate, still, By my side following Eve,—and following,  
  I and I following her wherso 
 ever in turn  
  she goes, just  
 the same, Content with the present, content with the  
 past.,   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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