Such boundless and affluent souls

Whitman Archive Title: Such boundless and affluent souls
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00017
Repository ID: II-7C 201
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: The second paragraph of this manuscript contains phrases and ideas similar to lines from the poem "Miracles," in particular the phrase "Every hour of the day and night, and every acre of the earth and shore . . . ." The poem was first published in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass , where it was titled "Poem of Perfect Miracles." The title was changed to "Miracles" in the 1867 edition of Leaves .