Beat! beat! drums! a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Nick Krauter Lisa Renfro Melissa Sinner Justin St. Clair Nicole Gray Andrew Jewell Kenneth Price Brett Barney Ashlyn Stewart Kevin McMullen 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 2002 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.00051 This manuscript is a draft of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" which was first published simultaneously in Harper's Weekly and the New York Leader on September 28, 1861. The manuscript was probably written in the summer of 1861 during the early days of the conflict, shortly before the poem's publication.

This manuscript is a draft of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" which was first published simultaneously in Harper's Weekly and the New York Leader on September 28, 1861.

 Whitman, Walt 1861 Beat! beat! drums! The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 26 Transcribed from The Walt Whitman Archive I: Whitman Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, ed. Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:156. The transcription was then checked against digital images of the original. On the back of this leaf are draft lines of a poem never published in Whitman's lifetime, probably written in the spring of 1865, shortly after the death of Abraham Lincoln. updated relations encoding regularized name for infrastructure proofed checked, corrected converted, added schematron declaration Added third digit to leaf numbers Corrected editorial note Addition of Date and Work Markup Addition of Date and Work Markup Conversion to camel-case Blessed Edited Checked; revised Encoded Transcribed 1 Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows—through every door—burst in like a force of armed men Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar is studying; Leave not the bridegroom any in quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride; Leave not Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field, or gathering his crops, grain, So strong you beat fierce you whirr and pound, you drums—So long and shrill you bugles blow.