Content:
Whitman numbered the leaves 75-81 in the upper right corner, with the exception of
leaves 6 and 7, which are numbered at top center. In 1860 this was the final poem
in
Leaves of Grass
; in 1867
Whitman cut twenty-one lines and transferred it to the end of the last
Leaves of Grass
supplement "Songs of Parting." In 1872, with
the transformation of this supplement into the cluster "Songs Before Parting," it was permanently fixed as the
final poem in the main body of
Leaves of
Grass
.
