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Title: Out of May's Shows Selected
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: May 10, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: per.00120
Source: New York Herald 10 May 1888: 6. 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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[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]
Out of May's Shows Selected.1
Apple orchards, the trees all covered with blos-
soms;
soms;
Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital
emerald green;
emerald green;
The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early
morning;
morning;
The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the
warm afternoon sun;
warm afternoon sun;
The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or
white flowers.
white flowers.
WALT WHITMAN.