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Early Rising

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  • Title: Early Rising
  • Date: 15 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00704
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 15 July 1857: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Natalie B. Holmes Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Early Rising." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00704.xml (TEI)
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EARLY RISING.—

There is no excuse for lying in bed now the sun rises so early. The difference between rising at five and seven, A. M., for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour of the night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life.

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