Certainties, Faith
Counterbalances,
Alternation
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| The body ^sluggish, old, |
| The fires in em embers left of earlier fires |
| The frozen winter clods—but —to them the spring |
| shall come |
| And [deleted, illegible]ds With grass and leaves flowers and summer |
b[deleted, illegible]es green fruits and corn |
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The sun is ^now sinking low in the west de |
| Shall rise again to morning and to noon |
| The light in the eye grows dim—the |
| body blood all sluggish, old |
| Appearances |
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Date
- This manuscript was likely written around 1887 or 1888, shortly before the poem was published in March 1888.
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Editorial note
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This manuscript is a draft of "Continuities," a poem published first in the New York Herald, March 20, 1888.
On the verso of this manuscript is an undated letter to Whitman from Talcott Williams.
The verso of
leaf #1 is
blank.
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Location
- Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation | The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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