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Whitman Archive Title: My Spirit sped back to
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00262
Repository ID: MS q 7
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Some of the words and phrases in this manuscript appear in the first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , eventually titled "Song of Myself." The manuscript also bears some resemblance to a line in the 1855 poem eventually titled "A Song for Occupations." The combination of "Love" and "Dilation or Pride" is also articulated in "Chants Democratic" (No. 4) in the 1860–1861 Leaves of Grass , later titled "Our Old Feuillage." The reverse contains one cancelled line: "Not one of the heroic guests."