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My 71st Year

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  • Title: My 71st Year
  • Date: November 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00006
  • Source: Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 39 (November 1889): 31. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Heather Morton Leslie Ianno Ramon Guerra Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "My 71st Year." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00006.xml (TEI)
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MY 71 ST YEAR.1

AFTER surmounting threescore and ten, With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows, My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of '63 
  and '4, As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or as haply after battle, At twilight, hobbling, answering yet to company roll-call, Here, with vital voice, Reporting yet, saluting yet the Officer over all. Walt Whitman.

Notes

1. Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [back]

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