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The spotted hawk salutes the

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  • Title: The spotted hawk salutes the
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00570
  • 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. Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."
  • Related Item(s):
    • Several lines of poetry are drafted on the back of this leaf. See uva.00238.
    • See wwa.00085.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The spotted hawk salutes the." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00570.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] The spotted ? hawk ? salutes the approaching night; He swoops by me, ^ and rebukes me hoarsely with his invitation; He complains with sarcastic voice of my lagging I feel apt to clip it, and go; I am W W— — the American I am but not not half tamed,—yet.— [cut away] keeps its [cut away]   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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