Content:
Proof sheet of "Old Age
Echoes" with many corrections written in ink and
pencil. "Old Age
Echoes" is a general heading for four poems: "Sounds of the Winter,"
"The Unexpress'd,"
"Sail Out for Good, Eidólon
Yacht!," and "After the Argument."
Content:
Lightly revised draft of a poem titled "Sounds of the winter too."
Under the title "Sounds of the
Winter," the poem was one of four belonging to the "Old Age Echoes"
cluster, first published in
Lippincott's Magazine
47 (March 1891) and then
reprinted in
Good-bye My
Fancy
(1891). The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand)
makes reference to
Good-Bye
My Fancy
and to "Sounds of Winter," as well as to a
"Putnam 1902
Edition." There is also a postmark dated 18 October 1889.
Content:
The general title, "Old Age
Echoes," appears at the top of the page. Beneath that title are two
poems with individual titles: "Sounds
of the Winter" and "The
Unexpress'd." Pasted to the leaf below the second poem is a woodcut
engraving of Whitman along with his autograph. The untitled lines directly
following the picture and autograph eventually become the poem titled "After the Argument." The three
poems were first published together in
Lippincott's Magazine,
March
1891, under the general title "Old Age Echoes."
