You lusty and graceflu youth

Whitman Archive Title: You lusty and graceflu youth
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00032
Repository ID: MS q 11
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: An early version of a part of "Great Are the Myths," a poem first published, untitled, as the concluding poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , and again in the 1856 edition as "Poem of a Few Greatnesses." The poem went through many revisions through the different editions of Leaves of Grass , then was permanently dropped in 1881–1882, except the two couplets that became the poem "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night." On the reverse (duk.00889) is partially cancelled verse beginning "Are the prostitutes nothing?" which includes a draft of a line from the third poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , ultimately called "To Think of Time."