Content:
On two pieces of white wove paper, 13 x 11.5 and 20 x 16 cm, in brown-black ink,
with substantial revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at center and in left
margins of both pages. This poem, featuring a new first line, became section 12 of
"Calamus" in 1860; in 1867
Whitman dropped the last 2 1/2 lines and permanently retitled it "Are you the New Person Drawn Toward
Me?" The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the
1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be
my lover,...") became verses 4-11.
