[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, |
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| 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. |
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Date
- This manuscript was written in 1881.
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Editorial note
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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.
The verso of
leaf #1 is
blank.
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Location
- As Consequent etc | The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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