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Ah, not this granite dead and cold

  • Whitman Archive Title: Ah, not this granite dead and cold
  • Whitman Archive ID: pml.00001
  • Repository ID: MA 627
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
  • Date: February 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
  • View Images: 1
  • Content: Draft of the poem originally published as "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" in the Philadelphia Press on February 22, 1885. It would later be reprinted as "Washington's Monument, February, 1885" in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). This is a later draft than pml.00005 and pml.00009. An image of the verso is currently unavailable.

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