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waited their due time to

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  • Title: waited their due time to
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00321
  • Source: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Transcribed from a digital image of the original manuscript. 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. The manuscript is a partial draft of the sixth poem in that edition, eventually titled "Faces."
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  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "waited their due time to." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: tex.00321.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] he same [cut away], waited their due time to clear the rubbish  
  from the fallen house tenement, [cut away]e s And I shall am to look again in a score or two of ages And I shall meet the real landlord when 
  [cut away] he st [cut away]d   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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