Ah, not this granite dead and cold a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Andrew Jewell Kenneth Price Brett Barney Nicole Gray Nick Krauter Amanda Gailey 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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 pml.00001 "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" was published first on February 22, 1885, in the Philadelphia Press. The poem was ultimately titled "Washington's Monument, February 22, 1885." This manuscript was probably written in February 1885, shortly before the poem was published. The verso image of this manuscript is currently unavailable.

"Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" was published first on February 22, 1885, in the Philadelphia Press. The poem was ultimately titled "Washington's Monument, February 22, 1885."

 Whitman, Walt Ah, not this granite dead and cold February 1885 MA 627 The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Transcribed from digital images of the original. updated transposition encoding updated relations encoding regularized name for infrastructure corrected removed schema declaration, updated date proofed converted, added schematron declaration Added third digit to leaf numbers Added to and corrected restore elements Added Date and Work Markup Added Date and Work Markup Converted to camel-case Blessed Edited Checked; revised Transcribed; encoded Beyond this Ah, not this granite dead and cold. Beyond this Ah not theis granite dead and cold, Far, far far from this base and shaft expanding—the round zones circling, comprehending, No lurid fame exceptional, nor monstrous intellect, nor conquest's dominations c Thou, Washington, aret all the world's, humanity's freedom's Freedom's, Law's, —not yours alone, America Thy fame, (no lurid fame exceptional, for the nor intellect, nor conquest's domination,) By deathless waves of emanation the race's common ownership, Europe's, as well, in castle or in cot laborer's cot—the Arab's in his tent—the African's, Old Asia's there with venerable smile seated amid the past, (Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the eternal heart and arm—the heir legitimate Courage, alertness, patience, hope, the same— e'en in defeat defeated not, the same;) No lurid fame exceptional, nor monstrous intellect, nor conquest's domination;) Through teeming cities' streets, indoors or out, factories or farms, Where'er ship sails, or house is built on land, or night or day, Now, or to come, or past—where patriot bra wills existed or exist Wherever Freedom, pois'd by toleration, sway'd by Law, Rising or risen, of thee are monuments there are is thy monumentst.