Content:
After being incorporated as the first main section of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860, this poem received its
own title, "To the Garden, the
World" in the 1867
Leaves of
Grass
and retained its position in the "Children of Adam" group.
Content:
A composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white wove paper that have been pasted together. On the larger piece
is an extensively revised pencil draft of the first poem in "Enfans d'Adam." The group first
appeared in print in the 1860
Leaves of Grass
with this poem as section 1. The poem was
permanently titled "To the Garden of
the World" in 1867. On the reverse of the leaf (uva.00023) are verses that became section 18 of "Calamus" in the 1860 edition of
Leaves of Grass
; the poem was permanently titled "City of Orgies" in 1867.
