Content:
On one leaf of pink paper (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in an even
blacker ink and in pencil. Pinholes in center. The poem was originally numbered
53. In 1860 Whitman designated it section 25 of "Calamus," transforming the title into a new first line
and expanding the original first line into verses 2-4. In 1867 he further revised
it, permanently retitling it "The
Prairie-Grass Dividing."
