FEINBERG/WHITMAN     LITERARY FILE     POETRY FILE     "Each Claim, Ideal, Line..."     A. MS. draft.
Box 26 Folder 62 

Includes poems "Lof G's Purport" and "Death Dogs My Steps."[*450*]

Each claim, Ideal, Line: poem. A.MS. (1p. 28 x 21 1/2 cm.)

Written in purple pencil, with a few lines in ink, on a sheet of white paper, 147 words:
                                                                           lines, claims
Each claim, ideal, line, [tenent aspiration], by all [the]  ideals
         [rest] temper'd
Each right and wish by other wishes, rights
                                                                  vast formidable masses
Not to exclude or take away, or [point] pick out evil from their 
But add, [and] extend complete, proportionate the immortal good, - [and]
       [to develope heroism].

? For out-door health, the land and sea, [friendship] for good will,
For Americal -- for [all] common people, all nations [lands], all the earth
(Not one nation only--not even America only)

                                                 These pages past
? Thoughts, suggestions, aspirations, pictures
Cities and farms--[of] by day and night--[of] thro' peace and war
Thro' platitudes--thro' commonplace.

I sing of life, yet mind me well of death,
(To-day Death dogs [my] [me] my steps, and has for years--my seated
[form] shape as here--
[And has for years)] Death--silent, [invisible] draws
sometimes close[)] as face to face.)Each claim, ideal, line, [tenet] [aspiration,] temper'd by all [the] lines claim ideals
Each right and wish by other wishes, rights

Not to exclude or take away or [point] pick out evil from their vast formidable masses
But add, [and] extend complete, proportionate the immortal good. [and]
[to develop heroism.]

For outdoor health, the land and sea, [- friendship] - for good will,
For America - for [all] common people, all [lands] nations, all the earth
(Not one nation only - not even America only)

These pages past
Thoughts, suggestions, aspirations, pictures
Cities and farms - [of] by day and night - [of] thro' peace and war
Thro' platitudes  - thro' commonplace.

I sing of life, yet mind me well of death,
(To-day Death dogs [my] my steps, and has for years - my seated [form] shape, as here -
[And has for years)] - Death, silent, [invisible] draws 
sometimes close [)] - as face to face.)