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After all is said and

  • Whitman Archive Title: After all is said and
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00797
  • Repository ID: MS q 3
  • 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: prose, poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: The second paragraph of this prose manuscript contains lines which appeared in a slightly altered form in the first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass . The poem was later divided into numbered sections and titled "Song of Myself"; the lines here appeared in section 4. The second paragraph also bears a distant resemblance to a line in the poem eventually titled "Faces" and to a line in the poem eventually titled "Song of the Answerer." The reverse side of this manuscript leaf (duk.00007) contains lines related to other sections of "Song of Myself."
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