Title: Nor you alone
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: About 1885
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00049
Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 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 is a draft of the poem "And Yet Not You Alone," first published in the "Fancies at Navesink" sequence of poems in the August 1885 issue of Nineteenth Century. Whitman probably composed this manuscript shortly before its publication.
Contributors to digital file: Nicole Gray, Nick Krauter, Lisa Renfro, Ashley Price, Andy Jewell, Kenneth Price, and Brett Barney
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Nor
yours
you
alone, twilight and
hurrying
poured-out
burying
ebb,
Nor you, ye lost designs, alone—nor
fail-
ures, aspirations;
I know, din divine, deceitful f
ones
one,s,
? show , your
hurried
needed
glamour's seeming,
Duly from you the inborne tides
^again—duly
the hinges
a‑turning
Duly the needed blending discord‑parts offsetting
From you, ^Weaving from you, from sSleep and Night, from Death itself,
The A The rhythmus of Life Birth eternal.
Proudly the flood comes in
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