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for Mulleins

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  • Title: for Mulleins
  • Date: 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03401
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Notes written on manuscript: On surface 2, in an unknown hand: "16-17"
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Nicole Gray Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt and Unknown. "for Mulleins." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 10 February 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03401.xml (TEI)

Key

Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
[begin surface 1]

for Mulleins & BB

—the tulip-tree is of the magnolia family —is found from Canada to Florida (largely in Michigan & southern Illinois) the highest 140 feet high, 8 ft thick the lumbermen west call it yellow poplar —it does not transplant well, but is easily raised from seeds over [begin surface 2]

"What is Apollo," says Addington Symonds in his Genius of Greek Art chapter, "What is Apollo, but the magic of the sun, whose [illegible]soul is light? What is Aphrodite but the love-charm of the sea? What is Pan but the mystery of Nature, the felt and hidden want pervading all?"

over 16-17
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