FEINBERG/WHITMAN   LITERARY FILE   POETRY FILE   "Up, Lurid Stars!"(1865). A.MS.S.draft.
Box 30 Folder 23Up, lurid stars!
By Walt Whitman

Up, lurid stars! martial constellation!
Change, tattered cloth - your silver group withdrawing;
Bring we threads of scarlet, in vacant spots resetting,
Thirty=four stars, red as blood.

World, take good notice! the silver group has vanished;
Notice clustering now, as coals of molten iron. 
Timely, warning baleful, off these western shores,
Thirty=four stars, red as blood.Up, lurid stars!
By Walt Whitman

Up, lurid stars! martial constellation!
Change, tattered cloth - your silver group withdrawing;
Bring we threads of scarlet, in vacant spots resetting,
Thirty: four stars, red as blood.

World, take good notice! the silver group has vanished;
Notice clustering now, as coals of molten iron. 
Timely, warning baleful, off these western shores,
Thirty: four stars, red as blood.521

Up, Lurid Stars!: poem. A.MS.s. (1p. 16 x 20 cm.)

Written in ink, with no changes or corrections, on a piece of 
sheet of white paper, 61 words:

Up, lurid stars!
  By Walt Whitman.

Up, lurid stars! martial constellation!
Change, tattered cloth—your silver group withdrawing;
Bring we threads of scarlet, in vacant spots resetting,
    Thirty-four stars, red as blood.

World, take good notice! the silver group has vanished;
Notice clustering now, as coals of molten iron,
Timely, warning baleful, off these western shores,
    Thirty-four stars, red as blood.