Beyond this granite dead and cold

Whitman Archive Title: Beyond this granite dead and cold
Whitman Archive ID: pml.00005
Repository ID: MA 931.1
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 draft (a later draft than pml.00009 but earlier than pml.00001) is written on a piece of paper with an envelope pasted at the bottom, postmarked February 18, 1885.