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Title: armies & navies pass on the surface
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: About the 1850s or 1860s
Whitman Archive ID: tex.00005
Source: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This manuscript was probably written in the 1850s or 1860s. The drafted lines are not known to have been published in Whitman's lifetime.
Related item: Written on the back of this leaf are two sentences or lines, one headed "Locust," and the other headed "Sunflower," which may have contributed to a piece of Civil War-era journalism. See tex.00467.
Contributors to digital file: Nick Krauter, Heather Morton, Nicole Gray, Andrew Jewell, Kenneth Price, and Brett Barney
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baleful
armies and [illegible] & navies pass on the surface
War & the ang savage passions of man war rage pass on
frantic
frenzied
temper
War & the angry fight pass
C War & the
passions
frantic tempers
of
man
^men
come
fo[illegible]
rage
on
out
then turn & depart—
but we remain
But we do not never depart
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