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Whitman numbered each of the six leaves, in pencil, in the upper right corner. In
the 1860 edition of
Leaves of
Grass
Whitman published this poem as section 8 of "Chants Democratic." In 1867, he
gave it the permanent title "Song at
Sunset" and moved it to the supplement "Songs Before Parting"; in 1871 it was finally
transferred to the cluster "Songs of
Parting" within the main body of
Leaves of Grass
.
