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armies & navies pass on the surface

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  • Title: armies & navies pass on the surface
  • Date: About the 1850s or 1860s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00005
  • Source: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. 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: This manuscript was probably written in the 1850s or 1860s. The drafted lines are not known to have been published in Whitman's lifetime.
  • Related Item(s):
    • Written on the back of this leaf are two sentences or lines, one headed "Locust," and the other headed "Sunflower," which may have contributed to a piece of Civil War-era journalism. See tex.00467.
    • See wwa.00083.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "armies & navies pass on the surface." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: tex.00005.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] baleful armies and [illegible] & navies pass on the surface War & the ang savage passions of man war rage pass on frantic frenzied temper War & the angry fight pass C War & the passions frantic tempers of man ^men come  
  fo[llegible] rage on out then turn & depart—  
  but we remain But we do not never depart   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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