Poetry Manuscripts

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But for your time,

— your needed your part

—duly the hinge

a‑turning,

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Really Duly [illegibile] ^?

And yet Nor you and yours the end, alone twilight

and hurrying ebb

I see

But Nor these _^ y ou e and yours you ye alone —_^ twilight and hurrying ebb—nor

ebb, nor tones of lost designs_^ alone

seeming seeming deep death alone, death seeming death murk alone, alone, nor failures aspirations

I know _^ divine deceitful one shows ones ! through duly

all thy your seeming glamour's seeming

Many Through all the the discord parts that round Time's

diapason.)

Duly from you the inborne

tides _^ tide again— duly the —the swell the tones duly the

hinge a‑twining elate again—[man?]

(Many the discord parts to round Time's diapason)

(Duly to me _{from you} [deletion,illegible]—from sleep

Duly. [deletion,illegible] Night, ebbing tides _^ —from all the liquid utterance there in the twilight ripples whispers —even

from Death itself I hear

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The A The rhythmus of life eternal.)

as as needed blended discord parts blended discord parts

Many the parts discord parts to

round the Time's diapason

Date: Whitman probably composed this manuscript shortly before its publication in 1885.

Editorial note: This manuscript is a draft of the poem "And Yet Not You Alone," first published in the "Fancies at Navesink" sequence of poems in the August 1885 issue of Nineteenth Century.; The verso of the manuscript leaf is blank.

Location: your needed blending discord‑parts | Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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