[Returning to my pages' front once]
| (Returning to my pages' front once |
| more, resuming all, |
| Songs, sorrows, tragedies, with stalwart |
| joys—O heaven! |
| The passionate, teeming play this curtain |
| hid!) |
| A glance look —a flashing token of my‑ |
| self—to future time. |
I launch to To yY ou, whoe'er you |
| are, I launch, through space |
| revolving, |
| These burin'd eyes—this head & globe face . |
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| These convolutions, miniature of all |
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Date
- This manuscript was probably written in the early to mid-1870s, after the creation of the photograph upon which "Out from Behind This Mask" is based and before publication of the poem in 1876.
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Editorial note
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This manuscript is a draft of lines in "Out from Behind This Mask," a poem published first in the New York Tribune, February 19, 1876.
The
verso
of
the
manuscript
leaf
is
blank.
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Location
- Out from behind this mask | The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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