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This mouth is pulled by

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  • Title: This mouth is pulled by
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00562
  • 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 creating material for the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. It is a draft of lines that appear in the sixth poem in that edition, eventually titled "Faces."
  • Related Item(s):
    • Poetic lines on the back of this leaf may relate to the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself." See uva.00273.
    • See wwa.00059.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "This mouth is pulled by." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00562.xml (TEI)

Key

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] This face mouth is the death‑bell pulled by the some sexton for his dismalest fee, The death‑bell tolls there.— This face marches with banners banners and champing cha horses Th[cut away] T[cut away]   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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