Feinberg/Whitman Notes and Notebooks Notes--Literary Undated Cosmic Poem Box 39 Folder 46? Conclusion [Never will Her] [All Her] [for it is not her] free political organization immense geographical area, [and] material wealth, and [?] unprecedented products and "business"- even the most advanced intellect and "culture"-- will never [carry] place [our] this Commonwealth of ours on [Carry America to] the topmost range[s] of history and humanity- -only [great] [first] the productivity (and on the most copious scale) of the loftiest moral & spiritual and heroic Illustrations of manhood and womanhood. [and If Dem] Until Democracy and the Modern [cannot] [are] [is not to] supply these [to] in plenty, and [outire?] [and] outs him Feudalism and the Antique the latter and on scales hitherto [unknown] undreamed of and unknownHon Walt Whitman Camden NJ [and] [?] Yours very Truly Otto L. Levy 315 Cal. St. San Francisco, Cal.* current aims, belief. policy! The [days] time lands, [general so] visible forms and invisible souls, out of which a poem arises tr. (*No great poem of any scope can be essentially considered without weighing first As the Biblic canticles and their days and spirit and conditions-- as the Homeric- as the Dantean- as the Shaksperean- As Ossian the Highland and Irish So I have attempted [the ? depict] mine America, the 19th Century, the Secession War, & democratic conditions as Omar Kayyam[Of course, what is] ? If there [is] can be any such thing as a cosmic modern and original poem I should [it is th] say America is worthy of it540 American Is Worthy of a Cosmic Poem: prose. A.MS. (3p. 10 1/2 x 15, 14 x 12 1/2, 17 1/2 x 21 cm.) Written in purple pencil on a scrap of pale tan paper; in ink, red ink, pencil, and purple pencil in a piece of lined paper cut from a larger sheet; and in ink, red ink, and pencil on the verso of a discarded letter, top part cut off (and oblige Yours very truly Otto L. Levy 315 Cal. St. San Francisco, Cal. Hon Walt Whitman Camden N.J.); the three pieces of paper pinned together, 30, 80, and 111 words: [Of course, what is] ? If there [is] can be any such thing as a cosmic modern and original poem [I] should [It is th] say America is worthy of it / * current aims, beliefs. The [days] lands, [general sou] visible forms and invisible souls, out of which a poem arises tr. (*No great poem of any scope can be essentially considered without weighing first As the Biblic canticles [and] their days and spirit and conditions (over)[541] 541 as the Homeric-- as the Dantean-- as the Shaksperian-- As Ossian the Highland and Irish so I have attempted [the ? depict] mine America, the 19th Century, the Secession War, & democratic conditions as Omar Kayyam / ? conclusions [All Her] [Never will Her] Free political organization [for it is not her] immense geographical area, [and] material wealth, [and teemin] unprecedented products and "business"-- even the most advanced intellect and "culture" --will never [carry] place [our] this Commonwealth of ours on [carry America to] the topmost range[s] of history and humanity--only, [great first] the productions (and on the most copious scale) of loftiest moral, spiritual and heroic illustrations of manhood and womanhood, [and if Dem] [Until Democracy and the Modern cannot are is not to supply those to] [*more*] 542 American Is Worthy: 2 [*in-plenty-and-outlive-and outshine-Feudalism-and-the-Antique-the latter] and on scales hitherto [*unknown*] undreamed of and unknown