FEINBERG/WHITMAN   LITERARY FILE   POETRY FILE  "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone" (1887) Proof Sheets.
Box 27 Folder 49

NOT MEAGRE, LATENT BOUGHS ALONE.
Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs!  (scaly and bare,
   like eagle' talons)
But haply for some sunny day, (who knows?) some future
   spring, some summer — bursting forth,
To blossoms, verdant leaves or sheltering shade — to nourishing
fruit,
Apples and grapes — and stalwart limbs of trees emerging —
the fresh, free, open air,
and love and faith, like scented roses blooming. 
WALT WHITMAN.

CROSS-REFERENCE
POETRY FILE 
"Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone" (1887), Proof sheet.
See POETRY FILE
"You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me" (1888), Proof Sheet. 
Box 30

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