[some threading Ohio's]
| Rivulets, some
meandering
threading
through
Ohio's
|
| the
fields farm-fields, or |
| in the woods |
| Some flowing down fr
as from
|
| Colorado's
mountains
cañons
,
their
from
from
sources |
|
[f?]
[deletion, illegible]
of
of
eternal snow, |
^
| Some
to
with
in their
half‑hid threads in
Oregon,—or |
| southward in Texas, |
| Some to the north finding
their way to Michigan,
|
| Erie, Niagara, Ottawa, |
| Some to the bays Atlantics bays |
| and so to the great salt
sea
brine
. |
|
-
Date
- This manuscript was written in 1881.
-
Editorial note
- This manuscript is a draft of lines published in the poem "As Consequent, Etc." The
poem was published first in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass.
- The verso of the manuscript is a letter to
Whitman from the Camden and Atlantic Railroad dated January 25, 1881.
-
Location
- As Consequent etc | The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
-
Whitman Archive ID
- loc.00082
|
