Struggling steadily to the front

Whitman Archive Title: Struggling steadily to the front
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00129
Repository ID: MS q 50
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: about 1875
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Heavily revised draft of the prefatory note for "Song of the Exposition," as it appeared in the 1876 volume Two Rivulets. Earlier and later publications of the poem did not include this prose introduction.