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"The Mystic Trumpeter" was
first published in the February 1872 issue of
The Kansas Magazine
, after which Whitman published it
in the 1872 book
As a Strong Bird on
Pinions Free
, in the 1876
Two
Rivulets
, and in the 1881 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. There and in later editions the poem
was included in "From Noon to Starry
Night." Other drafts of the poem are housed in the Charles E. Feinberg
Collection at the Library of Congress, the Trent Memorial Collection at Duke
University, and the T.E. Hanley Collection at the University of Texas.
