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This poem became section 18 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 edition. In 1872 the
poem received the title "All is
Truth," and in 1881, after various repositionings, it was finally
transferred to the cluster "From Noon
to Starry Night". The second leaf is a composite formed when Whitman
deleted and cut away the original first two verses on the leaf, flipped the new
small section over and upside-down, pasted it to the foot of the remaining
original verses, and inscribed a verse in light ink on the newly created blank
space.
