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After the dazzle of day is gone,

Only the dark dark night shows

to my eyes the stars;

After the clangor of organ majestic,

or chorus, or perfect band,

Silent, athwart my soul, moves the

symphony true.

Walt Whitman

Date: This manuscript was probably composed in 1887 or early 1888, shortly before the poem's publication.

Editorial note: "After the Dazzle of Day" was first published in the New York Herald, February 3, 1888.; The verso of the manuscript leaf is blank.

Notes written on manuscript: In bottom margin, inhand of Horace Traubel: For Francis Howard Williams
May 1896 Traubel.

Location: After the Dazzle of Day | The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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