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In Nature all is so real

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  • Title: In Nature all is so real
  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05333
  • Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, 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  • Editorial note: Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 6:2044).
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "In Nature all is so real." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.05333.xml (TEI)

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Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
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^In Nature is ^all is so real— so whole—so without —so compact, without flaw!—But these religions—these creeds!

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