Content:
This is a partial, late draft, with minor revisions, of "Bardic Symbols," first
published in the April
1860 issue of the
Atlantic Monthly.
The poem was later revised and published
under the title "As I Ebb'd
with the Ocean of Life." Two of the manuscript leaves are stored
with a letter to the editor, James Russell Lowell, dated October 2,
1861; the other leaf is stored separately.
Content:
A list of words probably related to the poem "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life,"
originally published as "Bardic Symbols" in the
Atlantic Monthly
5 (April 1860). The final
version of the poem was published in
Leaves of Grass
(1881-82).
The verso features the words "Sands and Drifts."
