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This manuscript draft became section 16 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860, with Leaf 1
corresponding to verses 1-6 and Leaf 2 ("They shall train themselves/ to go in
public,...") to verses 7-11. In 1867 Whitman restored the title "Mediums"; in 1871, the poem was
transferred to
Passage to India
,
and in 1881 took its final position in the cluster "From Noon to Starry Night."
