Content:
These leaves comprise four sections of a poem inscribed on the first and third
sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white wove paper used for
1:3:1 and 1:3:2, in the same light brown ink and, like them, with only minor
revisions. The pages were folded and pinned together to form a small pamphlet.
Pinholes mostly at center-top and in what was the left margin of the pamphlet. The
lines on page 1 became verses 1-8 of section 4 of "Calamus." in 1860; page 2 ("Solitary, smelling the
earthy/ smell,...") became verses 9-14; page 3 ("Here lilac with a branch of/
pine,") became verses 15-22; and page 4 ("And stems of currants, and/
plum-blows,") became verses 23-28. From 1867 on the poem was titled "These I, Singing in Spring."
