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vain the mastadon retreats beneath

  • Whitman Archive Title: vain the mastadon retreats beneath
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00079
  • Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 by 19.7 cm. (irregular), handwritten
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  • Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript between 1850 and 1855 as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass . Lines from the manuscript appear in the first poem of that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself." On the reverse are two prose notes, nyp.00523 and nyp.00524.
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