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Whitman Archive Title: A Twilight Song
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Whitman Archive ID: hun.00020
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Repository ID: HM 1224
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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Date: about 1890
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Late draft, with a few corrections, of "A Twilight Song," a poem first published in the May 1890 issue of
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine,
where it was subtitled "For unknown buried soldiers, North and South." It was reprinted, without the subtitle, in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891) and in the "Good-By my Fancy" annex of
Leaves of Grass
(1891–92).
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