FEINBERG/WHITMAN     LITERARY FILE     POETRY FILE     "Twilight" (1887).      Proof Sheet. 
Box 30 Folder 15

Includes Horace Troubel notation.

The circumstances of presentation
of this proof sheet is told in With 
Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 1. page
308.

CEF 1948

TWILIGHT.

The soft voluptuous opiate-shades,
The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd -- (I too will soon
          be gone, dispell'd,)
A haze -- nirwana -- rest and night -- oblivion.
                                                                    Walt Whitman.
June 14, 1888

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