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Shakespere Bacon's Cipher

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  • Title: Shakespere Bacon's Cipher
  • Date: October 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00030
  • Source: The Cosmopolitan 4 (October 1887): 142. 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 Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Shakespere Bacon's Cipher." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00030.xml (TEI)
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SHAKESPEARE BACON'S CIPHER.1

A HINT TO SCIENTISTS.

BY WALT WHITMAN. I DOUBT it not; then more, immeasurably more, In each old song bequeathed, in every noble page or text, (Different, something unreck'd before, some unsuspected author,) In every object—mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life, As part of each, finality of each, meaning, behind the ostent, The mystic cipher waits infolded.

Notes

1. Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher." [back]

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