The Walt Whitman Archive
In Whitman's Hand
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About this Item
Title: As to you
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00134
Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This section was evidently pasted to and then pulled away from another page; some fragments of that other page remain affixed to the top. Beneath them can be discerned the ink number 2. In the upper left corner appears a "+" within parentheses, which was formerly covered by the other page. In his transcription of this manuscript, Richard Maurice Bucke combined it with three other manuscripts: see nyp.00095, nyp.00097, and uva.00283 (Notes and Fragments [London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., printers, 1899], 28–29). Though the subject matter is similar, the manuscripts do not appear to be continuous.
Notes written on manuscript: On leaf 1 recto, in unknown hand: "2"
Contributors to digital file: Nicole Gray, Brett Barney, and Joshua Ranger
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2
As to you, if you have
never
not
yet learned
to think, enter upon it now,
Think at once with directness, breadth,
^aim, conscientiousness
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You will feel
a new
a strange
unfailing pleasure
from the start, and grow rapidly
each successive
year. week.
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