FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE POETRY FILE "On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!" (1891). Proof Sheets. Box 28 Folder 18 Includes A.MS. corrections & notations. [eclaircissement] ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN! On, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-tongues of flame [,] inseparable twined and merged in one--combining all, My single soul--aims, confirmations, failures, joys -- nor single soul alone, I chant my nation's cru[ic]cial stage, (America's, haply humanity's) --the trial great, the victory great, A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats -- here at the west a voice triumphant __ justifying all, A gladsome, pealing cry ___ a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction; I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst) __ And now I chant old age, (My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread, I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same); As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love, Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions, On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same! WALT WHITMAN. Correct, & give me 30 slips (paper same as "Queen Victoria") ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN! On, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one -- combining all, My single soul -- aims, confirmations, failures, joys -- nor single soul alone, I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's) -- the trial great, the victory great, A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats -- here at the west a voice triumphant __ justifying all, A gladsome pealing cry __ a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction; I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst) __ And now I chant old age, (My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread, I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same); As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love, Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions, On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same! Walt Whitman ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN! On, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years. Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one -- combining all, My single soul -- aims, confirmations, failures, joys -- nor single soul alone, I change my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's) -- the trial great, the victory great, A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats -- here at the west a voice triumphant -- justifying all, A gladsome pealing cry -- a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction; I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst) -- And now I chant old age, (My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread, I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same); As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love, Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions, On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same! WALT WHITMAN. [*1710*] 1890 On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!: Proof with Notation and Corrections. A.MS. (2p. 24 x 15 cm.) Written in ink on a proof of 'On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!', a 14-line poem, corrections in punctuation (lines 3, 7, 8) and spelling ('crucial' for 'cruical' in line 5, and 'eclaircissement' for "ecclaircissement' in line 6), at bottom, 11 words: Correct, & give me 30 slips (paper same as "Queen Victoria") Second proof has all corrections made; it has no MS material by Whitman. CROSS-REFERENCE POETRY FILE "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twian" (1891). Proof Sheet See POETRY FILE "Old age Recitatives" (1891). Proof sheets, Box 28 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.