Content:
The manuscript bears the title "To a
Pupil"; however, the original title seems to have been cut away. This
poem was revised somewhat and published under the same title in the "Messenger Leaves" cluster of the
1860
Leaves of Grass
. It was ungrouped
in 1867, transferred to a "Leaves of
Grass" group within the "Passage to India" supplement in 1872 (also 1876), and finally moved to
the cluster "Autumn Rivulets"
within
Leaves of Grass
in
1881.
