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[The bivouac does not the voice of]
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Whitman Archive Title: [The bivouac does not the voice of]
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00461
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
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Box: 2
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Folder: 1
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Date: between 1865 and 1883
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Two lines of verse, with revisions. The relation of these
lines to Whitman's published poetry is uncertain, though in concept and
imagery they echo a passage from "The Real War will never get in the Books," a prose piece that appeared in
Specimen Days
(1882–83). There, the poet writes
that the war
was not a quadrille in a
ball-room.
The lines on the other side of the leaf, tex.00012, are for the
Drum-Taps
(1865) poem "A March in the Ranks
Hard-Pressed, and the Road Unknown."
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