Content:
A draft of the poem "Now Precedent Songs, Farewell," which
first appeared in
November Boughs
(1888) and was reprinted in the 1891–92 printing of
Leaves of Grass
.
Whitman Archive Title: The two songs on this page are
Content:
This manuscript contains the footnote for poems "Now Precedent Songs, Farewell" and "An Evening Lull," first published in "Sands at Seventy," an annex of
November Boughs
in 1888. According to Horace Traubel, the footnote was written by Whitman on 19 June 1888 (
With Walt Whitman in Camden
[Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906] 1:353).