Content:
These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered sections 1 through 4 of the
ungrouped poem "Says" in the
1860 edition of
Leaves of
Grass
. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs from the poem in the 1867
Leaves of Grass
version; from
that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final
appearance in 1876.
