Content:
Originally numbered 55 and revised by overwriting to 56. Leaf 1 corresponds to
verses 1-6 of the 1860 version, and the lines on leaf 2 ("Who out of
the theory of the/ earth,...") correspond to verses 7-10. Revised very little
through the different editions, "Kosmos" appeared in 1872 and 1876 in a "Leaves of Grass" group in the supplement "Passage to India." In 1881 it was
finally transferred to the cluster "Autumn Rivulets" within the main body of
Leaves of Grass
.
