Title: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: January 1885
Whitman Archive ID: per.00009
Source: Harper's Monthly Magazine 70 (January 1885): 264. Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, April Lambert, Heather Morton, Leslie Ianno, Ramon Guerra, and Susan Belasco
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[More than 83° north—about a good day's steaming distance to the Pole by one of our fast oceaners in clear water—Greely heard the song of a single bird merrily sounding over the desolation.]