Content:
On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white wove paper. The smaller
section is pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from
the top of which other lines were cut off. The verses became section 18 of "Calamus" in the 1860 edition of
Leaves of Grass
; the poem was permanently titled "City of Orgies" in 1867. On the reverse of the leaf (uva.00583)
appears an extensively revised pencil draft of the first poem in "Enfans d'Adam."
