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
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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.