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As I Sit Writing Here.

[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]

 As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
 Not my least burden is that dulness of the
       years, querilities,
 Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipa-
       tion, whimpering ennui,
 May filter in my daily songs.

WALT WHITMAN.

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Publication Information
"As I Sit Writing Here."  New York Herald  14 May 1888:  4.  Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).

Notes
As noted in Leaves of Grass, Comprehensive Reader's Edition, ed. Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley (New York: New York University Press, 1965), "querilities" should read "querulities." The word is misspelled in both the Herald and "Sands at Seventy" printings of the poem.

Whitman Archive ID
per.00121


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