FEINBERG/WHITMAN    LITERARY FILE    POETRY FILE "The Epos of a Life..." A. Ms. draft
Box 26 .   Folder 65570
The Epos of a Life: poem. A.MS. (1p. 13 3/4 x 20 1/2 cm.)

Written in pencil on a piece of lined stationery, with a few of
the corrections and cancelation lines in blue pencil, 92 words

[The Epos of a Life; taking [the] its varied way a single threadd [?] the line
[with] through wild & farm & hum
of city--oer river, lake & ocean--
[with shows of] through peace & war -- many &
[interspersed, the him]
The Epos of a life: I sing--varied the road, the way
[with] by [by] farm & hum of city, & frequent
trackless wild--[with] by river, lake, & ocean--[with] by
shows of peace & war;--along [that] the single thread,
so interspersed, Him of The Lands, identical, I sing.][The Epos of a Life; taking [the] its varied way, a single-Threaded[?] the line
[with] through wild & farm & hum
of city - oer river, lake & ocean -
[with shows of] though peace & war - many &
interspersed, the B[?]

The Epos of a life[:]

¶ I sing varied, the road, the way,
[with] [by] by farm & hum of city - & frequent
trackless wild - [with] by river, lake, & ocean - [with] by
shows of peace & war; - [along [that] the single thread,]
[so interspersed, Him of The Lands, identical, I sing.]