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born at all is equally

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  • Title: born at all is equally
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00100
  • Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. 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 revised this poetic fragment and used it in "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?," a poem that was untitled when it first appeared as the eleventh poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.
  • Related Item(s):
    • A list of words is written on the back of this manuscript leaf. See nyp.00734.
    • See wwa.00577.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "born at all is equally." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: nyp.00100.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
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] [cut away] 
  born at all is equally wonderful . . . . 
  and that I rose from passed from being 
  a babe in the infantile creeping trance of 
  three years summers and three winters to be articulate child   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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