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To-day and Thee

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  • Title: To-day and Thee
  • Date: 23 April 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00085
  • Source: New York Herald 23 April 1888: 6. 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 Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "To-day and Thee." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00085.xml (TEI)
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TO-DAY AND THEE.1

[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.] The appointed winners in a long-stretched game; The course of Time and nations—Egypt and 
  India, Greece and Rome; The cost entire, with all its heroes, histories, 
  arts, experiments, Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teach- 
  ers, books, Garnered for now and thee—To think of it! The heirdom all converged in thee! WALT WHITMAN.

Notes

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]

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