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The Great Laws do not treasure chips

  • Whitman Archive Title: The Great Laws do not treasure chips
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00264
  • Repository ID: MS q 9
  • 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: This manuscript includes language similar to lines that appeared in two of the poems in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , later titled "A Song for Occupations" and "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" On the reverse (duk.00905) are cancelled lines, beginning "hands are cut," which later appeared, in a revised form, in "Faces," which was originally published as the sixth untitled poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.

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