Title: Life
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: April 15, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: per.00083
Source: New York Herald 15 April 1888: 16. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy 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, and Susan Belasco
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1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]
2. The "Sands at Seventy" version of the poem includes parentheses around the second line. [back]