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Lying in Bed

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  • Title: Lying in Bed
  • Date: 9 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00788
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 9 May 1859: 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: PJ Zaborowski Kaylen Michaelis Jamie DeRousse Jason Stacy Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Lying in Bed." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00788.xml (TEI)
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LYING IN BED—

No piece of indolence hurts the health more than the modern custom of lying abed too long in the morning. This is the general practice in great cities. —[Exchange.

For one person’s health which is injured by too late rising there are twenty injured more by late going to bed. It is the stopping up late rather than the getting up late, which ought to be rectified.

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