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Title: Mannahatta
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: February 27, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: per.00099
Source: New York Herald 27 February 1888: 4. 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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Notes:
1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]
2. Mannahatta, meaning "land of many hills," is the Native American name Whitman uses for New York City. In the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass, Whitman italicized the final line and changed it to read, "A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves." [back]