Ah, not that granite dead and cold!

Whitman Archive Title: Ah, not that granite dead and cold!
Whitman Archive ID: pml.00010
Repository ID: MA 931 (C)
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Repository Title: Washington's Monument, February, 1885: autograph manuscript drafts of the poem
Date: February 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A late 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 is the latest of the four drafts of this poem held at the Pierpont Morgan Library (the others are pml.00009, pml.00005, and pml.00001). An image of the verso is currently unavailable.