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Notes where ~~the~~ wild bees flitting hums

Or ~~the~~ August silent m M ulleins grow .... or [deletion, illegible] winter

Snow flakes fall ...

While the ever the ~~far off~~ Stars _^ of heaven roll round and round ...

Date: This manuscript was likely written in 1891 or 1892, shortly before Whitman's death.

Editorial note: This manuscript is a draft of a poem unpublished in Whitman's life, though published posthumously as "Supplement Hours." In 1897, five years after Whitman's death, his literary executors added a group of poems entitled "Old Age Echoes" to a new printing of Leaves of Grass, and "Supplement Hours" was a part of this group.; The verso of the manuscript leaf is blank.

Location: Supplement Hours | The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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