[To this continent comes the]

Whitman Archive Title: [To this continent comes the]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00275
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Box: 1
Folder: 88
Date: 1856-1860
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 13 cm pasted to 5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content: These lines share common ideas expressed throughout Leaves of Grass , especially in many of the new poems to the 1860 edition. The strongest verbal echoes appear in the poem "So long!" which expresses very similar ideas and the common words "menacing" and "offspring." The printed words "Leaves of" appearing on the verso indicate that Whitman composed this draft on a piece of paper cover from the 1855 edition.