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Prayer of Columbus

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Section: Published Writings

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

Prayer of Columbus.

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

Prayer of Columbus.

Section: Literary Manuscripts

It is in itself

[By me]

[Thou knowest my]

[what is the guidance]

Columbus Prayer (ad 1503)

Columbus Prayers (ad 1503)

[A batter'd wreck'd old man]

[My hand, my limbs grow nerveless]

[Steersman unseen]

[Be it with]

[What may be the end I know not]

[my end draws]

[my brain grows rack'd]

Pourtraiture of Columbus

Pourtray Columbus

[my altar here the bleak sea-sand]

[what do I know of life?]

[Utter prostrate]

[The terminus now near]

[I am too full of woe]

[Thine now the helm]

[All my emprises]

[Haply the lifeless cross]

[Poem—Columbus]

[Again with latest breath]

Prayer of Columbus

Section: Commentary

Walt Whitman's New Book

The Genius of Walt Whitman

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