FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE POETRY FILE "Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood"(1872). A. MS. draft. Box 29 Folder 42 Includes note by Horace Traubel. Walt Whitman Manuscript. Trial lines of Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood. Presented by Horace Traubel to Gordon Craig in 1911 and purchased from his daughter Teddy, through Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, December 10, 1966 for $400 WALT WHITMAN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FEINBERG COLLECTION OF WALT WHITMAN [*7*] Thee, in thy [country poets] orbric singers [with] and musicians unborn yet but certain [to come] (O land!] As shafts of light [shall] enter the darkness and it is darkness, no more. [*8*] As [the] a chaos of spreading silence or discord, cleft by [the] voices, carols of [divine strength] & [full] faith [)], & strength & hope: ) Thee in [thy time] mature development -- thy soaring [glu??] unloosen'd spirits. [Advancing the thoughts facts of the unknown & of Imortality to confirm the facts of the known & of mortality] Thee in the saviours latent within thee – [the] in this bibles equal with any - divine as any [They] In the coming Democratic mental fetes, en masse -- [thy] in great original festivals, lectures, preachings, Thy [proud] general moral civilization, ([wh without] until which [all] thy [proud] general material civilization [as] remains but a mockery. [*A sheet of Walt Whitman's manuscript received by me [?] him & sent by me to Gordon Craig in Florence with love May 12th, 1911 Horace Traubel*] [*[While Thou Perpetual,]*] [*[While over [upon] [over] land and sea thr]*] Department of Justice Washington, 187 1889 Special Edit: (300 copies) p. 350.1 Passages of letters to be found. A sheet of Walt Whitman's manuscript received by me for him & sent by me to Gordon Craig in Florence with love. May 12th, 1911 Horace Traubel I used to carry this in my pocket so it is crumpled & sketched on Sion on Sitter Love[?] Earth & town past Percy.[?] [*Guiffe Roma*][?] [*From Reisinghaus*] [*August 21, 1912.*] [*Florence*] [*E.G.R.*] [*-evening.*] Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.