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[Leaf 1 recto]

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 s S leep and Night, from Death itself,

The A _The rhythmus of Life Birth eternal.

Date: Whitman probably composed this manuscript shortly before its publication in 1885.

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.; The verso of the manuscript leaf is blank.

Location: [Nor you alone] | Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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