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"To Rich Givers—" was
originally numbered 98. In 1860 it formed part of the "Messenger Leaves" cluster under
the same title. After being ungrouped (1867) and transferred to the cluster "Songs of Parting" (1872 and
1876), it finally appeared, in 1881, in the cluster "By the Roadside." The deleted verses on the back of
the leaf represent an earlier version of the manuscript poem "To the Future," never published
by Whitman, and currently housed in the Huntington Library.
