. The complete writings of Walt Whitman. tinuing, owning—As, first, I here and now,Signing for Soul and Body, set my name, [A scrawled] IV, IV: (Erasure in line 2, before one of subtly, finally. With three or fourslight changes, which are helps to the melody and swing of the verse, this number6 is identical with the final printed form.) 7 *Come, said my Soul,Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) [133] Z\)c (Browtb of Xeavee of (Brass ff That should I after death invisibly return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallyi


. The complete writings of Walt Whitman. tinuing, owning—As, first, I here and now,Signing for Soul and Body, set my name, [A scrawled] IV, IV: (Erasure in line 2, before one of subtly, finally. With three or fourslight changes, which are helps to the melody and swing of the verse, this number6 is identical with the final printed form.) 7 *Come, said my Soul,Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) [133] Z\)c (Browtb of Xeavee of (Brass ff That should I after death invisibly return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earths soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleasd smile 1 may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning — as, first, 1 here and for Soul and Body, set to them my name, [Autograph signature] Walt Whitman. From these evidences it would appear that thecomposition of lines and poems may be best de-scribed and understood as growth — vital growthrather than mechanical or merely critical construction. [134]. \J>^^ / ^ f^^^


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