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Nor you alone

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  • Title: Nor you alone
  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00049
  • Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 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: This manuscript is a draft of the poem "And Yet Not You Alone," first published in the "Fancies at Navesink" sequence of poems in the August 1885 issue of Nineteenth Century. Whitman probably composed this manuscript shortly before its publication.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Nor you alone." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: yal.00049.xml (TEI)

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  [begin leaf 1 recto] 14 3 N[?] Nor yours you alone, twilight and hurrying poured-out burying  
 ebb, Nor you, ye lost designs, alone—nor fail- 
 ures, aspirations; I know, din divine, deceitful f ones one,s, ? show, your  
  hurried needed glamour's seeming, Duly from you the inborne tides ^again—duly  
 the hinges a‑turning Duly the needed blending discord‑parts offsetting From you, ^Weaving from you, from sSleep and Night, from Death itself, The A The rhythmus of Life Birth eternal. Proudly the flood comes in 3   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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