Content:
Trial lines for a poem published posthumously as "[While Not the Past Forgetting]," Notes in a hand other than Whitman's appear on the reverse.
Whitman Archive Title: While not the past forgetting
Content:
This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "While Not the Past Forgetting." Whitman claimed
that the poem was published on May 30, 1888, though no copy of
such a version has yet been located. The poem was published in
November Boughs
in 1888.