[Leaf 1 recto]

[City of my walks and joys]

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Manhattan[!?] little you h [cut away]

You [deletion, illegible] city[:?] what do y[cut away]

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you repay me for my

daily walks joys

Not these^yourcrowded rows of houses silen

attract_repayme

[deletion, illegible] Not the bright windows [and?]^orthe goods in them, or the

processions in the street

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City of my walks and joys!

City whom that I have lived

and sung there will one day

make you illustrious!

Not the infinite pageants of

you—Not your shifting

tableaux, your spectacles,

repay me.

Not the interminable rows of

your houses—not r the

ships at the wharves,

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I_^^{Notr to} converse with educated and ^eminent ^learned

fashionable _^^learned persons, or bear

my share in the soirèe, or

feast, or discu in politics,

But as I pass, the _^^{frequent and} swift flash

of eyes, speaking offering ^offering me

delicious^{[deletion, illegible]} _^^athletic love ^{fresh as nature's air and herbage—} —offering me

full repa the_^^{respondsse and} equal of

my my own,

These repay me—Lovers, _^^continual Lovers

continu only repay me.—

[Leaf 1 verso]

[In the garden]

In a ^the garden, ^{the world,} I, a new Adam,

again wander,

Curious, here behold my resurrection

after ages of dea slumber,

The revolving ^mighty cycles, in their mighty ^wide

sweep, have again brought

me.—Ihave returned ^return, for

awhile, the same,

All is beautiful to me—all is

wondrous—I am myself

most wondrous,

The

All is

I have con

The

I exist, I peer and

penetrate, still,

By my side ^following Eve,—and following,

I and I following her wherso ^{in turn}

ever she goes, just

the same,

Content with the present, content with the

past.,

Date: This manuscript was likely composed in the late 1850s.

Editorial note

"[Cities of my walks and joys]" is a draft of the poem first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as number 18 in the "Calamus" cluster and ultimately entitled "City of Orgies." "[In the garden]" is a draft of a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as number 1 in the cluster "Enfans d'Adam." The poem was ultimately entitled "To the Garden of the World."

The verso of leaf #1 is blank.

Notes written on manuscript

In top margin, in hand of Fredson Bowers: Calamus 18. p 363.

Location: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829) | Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Whitman Archive ID: uva.00023