sent H May 19
pub'd
Life and Death
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| The two old ^simple problems ever |
For eEver intertwined |
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| ^Close home, Elusive, simple, present, baffled, grappled, foil'd baffled, |
| For By [about two letters deleted, illegible] each successive age pass'd on |
| insoluble, pass'd on, |
| To ours to-day—and we pass on. the same |
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Date
- This manuscript was probably composed in the spring of 1888 shortly before it was published.
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Editorial note
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This manuscript is a draft of "Life and Death," which was published first in the New York Herald, May 23, 1888.
The
verso
of
the
manuscript
leaf
is
blank.
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Location
- Life and Death | The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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