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After the Argument

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  • Title: After the Argument
  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00001
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from The Walt Whitman Archive I: Whitman Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, ed. Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:121; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997). The transcription was then checked against 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: "After the Argument" was published first in Lippincott's Magazine, March, 1891. This manuscript was likely written in 1890 or early 1891, shortly before the poem's publication.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "After the Argument." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.00001.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]

After an ^the unsolv'd argument

The ^ Coming in, aA group of little children, and their  
 ways and chatter, flow in, upon me Like ^welcome rippling water o'er my  
 heated ^nerves and flesh. Walt Whitman   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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