Asia a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Andrew Jewell Kenneth Price Brett Barney Zane Zimbelman Lisa Renfro Nick Krauter Nicole Gray Kevin McMullen Ashlyn Stewart The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Iowa University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Endowment for the Humanities The United States Department of Education 2003 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 duk.00886 This manuscript features notes and draft lines that are related to a poem published first as "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass and later as "Salut Au Monde!" Whitman's use of the word "tabounshic" is unusual. He used it (spelled "tabounschik") only in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass in the poem eventually titled "A Song for Occupations." In other respects, however, that poem does not appear to be related to these notes. At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

This manuscript contains notes and draft lines that are related to a poem published first as "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass, and later as "Salut Au Monde!"

Whitman's use of the word "tabounshic" is unusual. He used it (spelled "tabounschik") only in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass in the poem that took for its final title "A Song for Occupations." In other respects, however, that poem does not appear to be related to these notes.

 Whitman, Walt A nation announcing itself About 1855 or 1856 Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Transcribed from digital images of the original. Another series of draft lines on the back of this leaf were published as part of "Poem of Many in One" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. updated relations encoding regularized name for infrastructure added link to scrapbook in editorial note added inline relations updated image names adjusted work relations information checked, corrected, removed handNotes encoding converted, added schematron declaration Added third digit to leaf numbers Corrected Addition of Date and Work Markup updated rend attribute value on milestones; changed = to character #8209 in two places. Conversion to camel-case Blessed Edited Checked; revised Encoded Transcribed Asia Steppes the grass the winter appearance— —The Tartar life—nomadic pasturage, the herds— the tabounshic tabounschik or horse‑herd taboon, a herd of horses, The oxen—cows—women preparing milk The I am a Russ, An arctic sailor traversing I traverse the sea of Kara A Kamskatkan Kamchatkan drawn on my slight‑built sledge, drawn by dogs The ancient Hindostanee Hindustani with his deeities— The great old empires of India and Persia,—their That of Persia and its expeditions and conquests.— The Sanskrit—the ancient poems and laws The idea of gods incarnated by their avatars in men and women The huge falling of the waters of the Ganges over the peaks high rim of Sankara The poems descended safely to this day from poets of three thousand years ago. It is indeed a strange voice!—