Content:
Whitman numbered the inscribed sides of the folded leaf, in pencil, in the upper
right corners. Side 1 corresponds to verses 1-9 of section 14 of "Chants Democratic" in the 1860
Leaves of Grass
; side 2 ("I
expect that Kanadians,") became verses 10-16 of that version. In 1867 it was
shortened to make up section 4 of the final "Leaves of Grass" cluster. In 1872 it was permanently
retitled "Poets to Come" and
transferred to the cluster "The
Answerer," where it stayed until being moved to the "Inscriptions" cluster in
1881.
