Content:
This manuscript fragment contains about two and a half lines of poetry, heavily corrected, whose relationship to Whitman's published writing is unknown. On the reverse side (duk.00277) is a manuscript that contains a list of trial titles, probably for the poem first published as "Calamus 15" in
Leaves of Grass
(1860) and eventually titled "Trickle Drops." This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a
backing sheet, together with "And there, farther south,"
"The Scout," and "In a poem make the
thought."
