FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE POETRY FILE "Queries to My 70th Year" (1888). A.MS draft. Box 29 Folder 2 See also POETRY FILE "My 70th Year." A. MS. Draft. Box 27.1888 Queries to My 70th Year: poem (trial lines). A.MS. (1p. 23 by 20 cm.) Written in pencil on a sheet of coarse paper; with notation in another hand at very bottom (297--Doubleday Queries to 70th Year), 51 words: (Here fretful, parrot-like and old, harping and [harping] screeching Wilt cut me short, [x] for good or leave me here repeating? Wilt stir the waters yet Steep me in immobility As we grow old we narrow on ourselves concentrating Something to us unspeakably pensive in our [luck] own age, our sorrows-- [ *Published November Boughs 1888*](Here fretful, parrot-like and old. harping and [harping] screeching) Wilt cut me short for good or leave me here repeating? Wilt stir the waters yet Steep me in immobility As we grow old we narrow on ourselves concentrating Something to us unspeakably pensive in our [luck] own age, our sorrows- 297-Doubleday, Queries to 70th Year