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your needed blending discord‑parts

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  • Title: your needed blending discord‑parts
  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00050
  • Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 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 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. Whitman probably composed this manuscript shortly before its publication.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "your needed blending discord‑parts." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: yal.00050.xml (TEI)

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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] As ne your needed blending discord‑parts  
  join'd in offsetting 15 But for your time,  
 —your needed your part —duly the hinge  
 a‑turning, Really Duly [illegible] ? And yet Nor you and yours the end, alone, twilight  
  and hurrying ebb I see But Nor these ^youe and yours you ye alone —^twilight and hurrying ebb—nor  
  ebb, nor tones of lost designs ^alone  
  seeming deep death murk alone, nor failures aspirations I know ^divine deceitful one, shows ? ones! through duly  
 all thy your seeming glamour's seeming Many Through all 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 coming—from sleep  
  Duly. [illegible] Night, ebbing tides ^—from all the liquid utterance there in the twilight ripples whispers—even  
 from Death itself I hear Your needed blended discord‑parts joined in offsetting The A The rhythmus of life eternal.)  
  as needed blended discord parts Many the parts discord parts to  
 round the Time's diapason   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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