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Originally numbered 52 and revised by overwriting to 53. Ungrouped in the 1860 and
1867
Leaves of Grass
, the poem
"Savantism" was transferred
to
Passage to India
in 1871 and
from there to "Leaves of
Grass" groups in the "Passage to India" annexes of the 1872
Leaves of Grass
and the 1876
Two Rivulets.
From there it was moved, finally (in
1881), to the "Inscriptions"
cluster within the main body of
Leaves of
Grass
.