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I call back blunderers

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  • Title: I call back blunderers
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00250
  • 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 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 last couple of lines are similar to lines in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."
  • Notes written on manuscript: On leaf 1 recto, in unknown hand: "5"
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "I call back blunderers." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00250.xml (TEI)

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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] 5 I call back blunderers; and [illegible] I give strong meat in place of panada; I will not permit loads expose them who put  
  them him what whoever [illegible] that tryies loads on the soul. Is ^[illegible] Are yYou! so poor that you are always miserly,? Priests? Will you prize a round thing trifle like a saucer, done 
  in red and yellow paint? Lo! I offer men no painted saucers—I make every one 
  a present of the sun; himself; I have plenty more—I have millions of suns left.   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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