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In a poem make the thought

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  • Title: In a poem make the thought
  • Date: Before 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00278
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1336). It is possible that the manuscript is related to the poem that would later be titled "Recorders Ages Hence," first published as "Calamus 10" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "In a poem make the thought." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00278.xml (TEI)

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Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto]

In a poem make the thought of "what will be the result of this years hence?"—

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