This draft may be related to lines in the poem eventually titled "Song of the Answerer": "He is the answerer, / What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered" (1855, p. 86).
Whitman used the phrase "manifold objects," which also appears in this manuscript, in the poem that would eventually be titled "Song of Myself": "And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good," (1855, p. 17).
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