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[Ever the Dawn!]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [Ever the Dawn!]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04282
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 2
  • Folder: Trial titles
  • Series: Notes and Memoranda
  • Date: 1879
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Trial titles, written in blue crayon and pencil. Whitman used a version of the phrases here for the cluster title "From Noon to Starry Night," which first appeared in the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass . The titles are written on the reverse side of a message form from the Camden post office dated August 13, 1879.

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