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See'st thou

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  • Title: See'st thou
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00162
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. It probably relates to the seventh poem in that edition, part of which eventually became "Song of the Answerer." The manuscript is collected in a bound volume with other manuscripts.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "See'st thou." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.00162.xml (TEI)

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  [begin leaf 1 recto] See'st thou 
  Knows thou The Three 
  of the tThree There is on the one part Between this beautiful 
  but dumb Earth, with 
  all all its manifold eloquent 
  but inarticulate 
  shows & objects And on the other part, the 
  being Man, curious 
  questioning & at fault, va[illegible] Now between the two 
  comes the poet the 
  Answerer,   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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