Title: your needed blending discord‑parts
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: About 1885
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00050
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: Andrew Jewell, Brett Barney, Nick Krauter, Lisa Renfro, Nicole Gray, Chris Forster, and Kenneth M. Price
As ne
your needed blending
discord‑parts
join'd in
offsetting
But for your time,
—your needed your part
—duly the hinge
a‑turning,
Really Duly [illegible] ?
And yet Nor you and yours
the end, alone,
twilight
and hurrying ebb
I see
But Nor
these ^youe
and yours
you ye
alone —^twilight and hurrying ebb—nor
ebb, nor
tones of lost designs ^alone
seeming deep death murk alone,
nor failures aspirations
I know ^divine deceitful one,
shows
?
ones!
through
duly
all
thy
your
seeming
glamour's
seeming
Many Through
all the discord parts that round Time's
diapason.)
Duly from you the inborne
tides
^tide
again—duly the
—the swell
the tones
duly the
hinge a‑twining
elate
again—[man?]
(Many the discord parts to round
Time's diapason)(Duly
to me
from you
[coming?]—from sleep
Duly.
[illegible] Night,
ebbing tides
^—from all the liquid
utterance there in the twilight ripples whispers—even
from Death itself I hear
Your needed blended discord‑parts joined in offsetting
The
A
The
rhythmus of life eternal.)
as needed blended discord parts
Many the
parts discord parts to
round
the Time's
diapason